Death Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant, and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Either Scholarship or Death will be my refuge.

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.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

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

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

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.