Lobsang Tenzin Quotes

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

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

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.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.