Rajneesh Quotes

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

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

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Every fear is fear of death.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

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.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.