Quotes on Death

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

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.

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.

Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.