Buddha Quotes

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

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.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

You're too young to decide to live forever.

All would live long, but none would be old.

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.