"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority." ― Edward Young Topic(s): Death More From Edward Young "The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety." "The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss." "Less base the fear of death than fear of life." More In Death "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 "I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens."― Woody Allen "For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."― Sophocles