Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

We pass through this world but once.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

Mortality defines the human condition.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Our time on Earth is so random.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.