Rajneesh Quotes

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.

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?

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

I know many lives worth living.

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"