Death Quotes

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait and look for peace.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

Unindicated and unknown is the length of life of those subject to death.

I shall live here in the rains, there in winter, elsewhere in summer, muses the fool, not aware of the nearness of death.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

To live in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible. We must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.

Of bones the city is made, Plastered with flesh and blood, Where decay and death are deposited, And pride, and ingratitude.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

The nearest friends can goWith anyone to death, comes so far shortThey might as well not try to go at all.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.