Rajneesh Quotes

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Mortality defines the human condition.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

I don't want to die.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

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

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.