Did Mark Twain really say "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."? I see it attributed to him all the time, but I can not find a source. Does anyone know? link 1 Related Posts“ Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. ” ~ Ambrose Redmoon "Truth is stranger than fiction…" – Mark Twain OC "When I’m lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death, and neither one particularly appeals to me" – Morrissey "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"- Mark Twain Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus