Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.