Raymond Smullyan Quotes

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

I don't want to die.

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

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

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

I'm not frightened of death.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

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

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.