Deepak Chopra Quotes

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Denial of death at some point becomes a delusion.

A craven fear of death is sweeping across America.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

Rich people are afraid to die.

I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.

I don't think having a fear of death is unreasonable.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.