Quotes About Death By Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. 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

#3. Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. 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

#5. In the midst of death life persists ...

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. 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

#12. Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. 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

#23. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. 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

#31. Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. Death is not our destiny. Longing for true love is our true destiny. That is where we will find the ultimate meaning of life.

Debasish Mridha

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. 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