Rajneesh Quotes

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

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.

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.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things.

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.