Rajneesh Quotes

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

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.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

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

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

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!

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

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

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

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.