"Death doesn’t frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life." ― Jeanne Calment Topic(s): Death More From Jeanne Calment "Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life." "Every age has its happiness and troubles." More In Death "I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."― Lord Byron "That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."― Amelia Barr "For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."― Susan Sontag