Rajneesh Quotes

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

I would like to live forever if it was possible.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.