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Death Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

50 Death quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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A snake poised to bite shows a deep respect for life, even for the smallest creature. The quotes say a courageous person prefers death to losing self‑respect, and that fear cannot hold the fearless. They stress that a nation's freedom outweighs any single life, urging resistance even if it means dying.

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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

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If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity…

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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their…

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Share LIFE becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy

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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help…

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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even…

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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit…

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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary…

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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice…

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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds…

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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason…

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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor…

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I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour…

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“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that…

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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

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... in the midst of death life persists ...

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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

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“Better one’s own duty, bereft of merit, than another’s well-performed; better is death in the discharge of one’s duty; another’s duty is…

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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying…

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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

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Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

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Birth and death are not different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. -

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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer…

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Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

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For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism,…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.