Stanislav Grof Quotes

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.