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Death Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- 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…
- 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.
- Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply…
- All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of…
- Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
- He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
- Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning…
- We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
- Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
- Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
- Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should…
- Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who…
- No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
- You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of…
- Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
- You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you?…
- Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the…
- Life is uncertain; death is certain.
- Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger…
- All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
- Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
- Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things?…
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- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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