Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

While there's life, there's fear.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

There is a thing where I get scared watching other people, and really realize, My God, their happy lives are going to stop. Sometimes you feel that people have 19 jokers in their back pocket and, because of the way they're living, you're like, Do you know that this is not going to happen over and over again forever?

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

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.

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.