Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

While there's life, there's fear.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Living is risking.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What do we want?" I asked blurrily. "Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted." "What was that?" He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.