Rajneesh Quotes

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

I am scared of death.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

Death is a fearful thing.

I think people don't think or talk about death very much. I don't think we're very open about it, at least in my experience.

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

Death is my neighbor now.

Death is the loss of everything all at once.

Is it then so sad a thing to die?

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

I don't want to hear about my death.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.