But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. Emma Thompson
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling. Honore de Balzac
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Hannah Arendt
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. Ovid
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. William Butler Yeats
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living. Gilbert Parker
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death is just life's next big adventure. J. K. Rowling
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Corazon Aquino
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Robert Green Ingersoll
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Miyamoto Musashi
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. Courtney Love
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. Fulton J. Sheen
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. Rosalind Russell
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. Joseph Stalin
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. Johnny Cash
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. Jean-Paul Sartre