Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Death

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Life, Death

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Death, Spiritual

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Essence, Killing

Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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

Life, Death, Prayer

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Agony, Truest

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.37, Courier Corporation

In the midst of death life persists.

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Midst, Darkness To Light

Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Science, Men

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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

Death, Heart, Men

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Men, Live Free

Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Country, Eye

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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

Death, Views, Long

Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Wise, Coins

Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Soldier, Welcome

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Party, Thinking

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Men, Fearless

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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

Death, Shadow, Valleys

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press