Anthony de Mello Quotes

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Birth was the death of him.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

To live is to die.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.