Rajneesh Quotes

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.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

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

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

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

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!

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

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.

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

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

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

Every fear is fear of death.

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

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... 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.

Life is scarier than death.

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