Quotes & Sayings About Death By Gandhi

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

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

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. — Indira Gandhi

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

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

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — Mahatma Gandhi

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him. — Mahatma Gandhi

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death. — Mahatma Gandhi

The moral of Gandhi's life and death is that pacifism as a political program is much more difficult to sustain than pacifism as a personal ethic. Being himself a leader of extraordinary charisma and skill, Gandhi was able to organize a whole people around a program of pacifism. He proved that a pacifist resistance movement can be sustained for thirty years and can be strong enough to defeat an empire. The subsequent history of India proved that political pacifism was not strong enough to survive the death of its leader and to withstand the temptations of power. — Freeman Dyson

Man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism. — Mahatma Gandhi

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier. — Mahatma Gandhi

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the prestige of the conqueror and backed by British bayonets, Christianity is not supported by the converts themselves. Every bit of Protestant Christianity in India is maintained partly by the money flowing from England and America, and partly by taxes imposed upon the Hindus against their will, which must be paid although the people starve.
The people of India as a whole are saturated with religious and philosophical thought. They think and ponder on spiritual matters from childhood to death. Even the street-sweeper is frequently more profoundly versed in subtle metaphysics and divine wisdom than the missionary sent to convert him. — Virchand Gandhi

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

Whatever you do in life will be insignificant. but it is very important that you do it because, You can't know; You can't ever really know the meaning of your life, and you don't need to. Just know that your life has a meaning. Every life has a meaning; whether it lasts one-hundred years or one-hundred seconds.Every life and every death changes the world in its own way. Gandhi knew this. He knew his life would mean something to someone, somewhere, somehow. And he knew with as much certainty that he could never know that meaning. He understood that enjoying life should be of much greater concern than understanding it. And so do I. You can't know. So don't take it for granted; but don't take it too seriously. Don't postpone what you want. Don't leave anything misunderstood. Make sure the people you care about know. Make sure they know how you really feel. Because just like that it could end. — Will Fetters

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ... — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. — Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

In the midst of death life persists ... — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death. — Mahatma Gandhi

We preach and practice brotherhood - not only of man but of all living beings - not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice - that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney. — Virchand Gandhi

We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting. — Mahatma Gandhi

I realised that in refusing to take a vow man was drawn into temptation, and that to be bound by a vow was like a passage from libertinism to a real monogamous marriage. "I believe in effort, I do not want to bind myself with vows," is the mentality of weakness and betrays a subtle desire for the thing to be avoided. Or where can be the difficulty in making a final decision? I vow to flee from the serpent which I know will bite me, I do not simply make an effort to flee from him. I know that mere effort may mean certain death. Mere effort means ignorance of the certain fact that the serpent is bound to kill me. The fact, therefore, that I could rest content with an effort only, means that I have not yet clearly realised the necessity of definite action. "But supposing my views are changed in the future, how can I bind myself by a vow?" Such a doubt often deters us. But that doubt also betrays a lack of clear perception that a particular thing must be renounced. — Mahatma Gandhi

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes. — Mahatma Gandhi

If life is a prison, then death is the ultimate freedom. — Debasish Mridha