Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.