Death Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

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

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

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.

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.

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.