And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

One who meditates on the Supreme Reality and practices righteousness shall obtain God and escape birth and death.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

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

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead: Those who are free from anger are free from death.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of the ocean behold one indivisible mass of water. Similarly, those who acknowledge "life" and "death" are tossed by sorrow, while those who live in the illimitable superconsciousness behold and feel the One Ineffable Bliss.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Jivatman, the dweller in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age and then with the same ease into another body through the door of death, hence the wise are not deceived by the phenomenon of death.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.