Memorable Buddhist Quotes About Death

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"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely present is the greatest gift we can give to the people we love."
Joyce Vissell
"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."
Rumi
"Impermanence is inherent in all things. All things are subject to decay. Seek refuge in the Dharma."
Buddha
"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."
Buddha
"After death, there is no greater sorrow than that of a person who lived in ignorance."
Buddha
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our future."
Buddha
"For death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
Rossiter Raymond
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"The only thing that survives our death is the good we have done to others."
Buddha
"As long as we cling to life, all we find is suffering. Let go, and death becomes liberation."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think."
Buddha
"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
Siddhartha Gautama
"In the end, a person is but a memory; live well and leave a good one."
Buddha
"A mind that is full of thought, hate, and attachment cannot understand the reality of death."
Buddha
"Those who cling to life are bound by suffering, those who release all attachments find peace."
Buddha
"When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be."
Lao Tzu
"The path to enlightenment is paved with the understanding of impermanence."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The greatest gift of life is to be present with it."
Pema Chödrön
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
Buddha
"Live your life as if every day is your last, because someday you will be right."
Unknown
"Birth is the beginning of death. Death is the beginning of birth."
Buddha
"Suffering is a part of life, but so is the opportunity to release all suffering when we understand it."
Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Cherish all you have; nothing lasts forever, and every moment is precious."
Buddha
"To be attached to things is to be unhappy."
Buddha
"When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense."
Rumi
"Life is like a banana. You peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you feel you’ve just gone bananas."
Anonymous
"All compounded things are impermanent."
Buddha
"Death is not to be feared. It is the fear of not living that brings death."
Buddha
"The path is not in the sky. The path is in the heart."
Buddha
"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
Buddha
"Every moment is a moment of decision."
Buddha
"Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again."
Buddha
"Let go of the past and let it go. It's no longer relevant."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"You must learn to let go. Release the fear, hold onto love."
Steve Maraboli
"Pain is certain, suffering is optional."
Buddha
"Samsara, the cycle of birth and rebirth, is born of attachment to the self."
Buddha
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
Buddha
"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
Buddha
"Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care."
Buddha
"Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it."
Buddha
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
Buddha
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
Buddha
"It is not the length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is suffering; suffering is impermanent; impermanence is the way of the world."
Buddha
"The whole world is a bridge; do not build your home on it."
Buddha
"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down."
Dick Sharples
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Buddha
"To be attached to life is to be attached to suffering."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Our own life has to be our message."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life is a river. It flows and changes, but it always returns to where it began."
Buddhist Proverb
"Let go or be dragged."
Buddhist Proverb
"Impermanence is the law of the universe; we create suffering when we try to hold on."
Pema Chödrön
"The only constant in life is change."
Buddha
"If we are not able to let go of some idea of what we want, we become obsessed."
Pema Chödrön
"There is no death, only a shedding of the skin. This is the real understanding."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."
Buddhist saying
"All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering."
Buddha
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life."
Mark Twain
"Death is a continuation of the process of life; it is not an end, but an evolution."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"As long as we cling to things that we assume are permanent, we cannot allow ourselves to look at them with wisdom."
Pema Chödrön
"When we cling to life, we suffer. Letting go is the ultimate freedom."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts, you make the world."
Buddha
"You only lose what you cling to."
Buddha
"The moment we stop clinging to the false idea of self, we won't fear death."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The whole of life is but a moment. Do not fear the moment of death."
Buddhist Proverb
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
Sigmund Freud
"Suffering is not enough to wake us up. We need to be able to put suffering into perspective."
Pema Chödrön
"Life and death are like a single thread, viewed from two different sides."
Buddhist Proverb
"To abandon oneself, to let go, is a shining virtue."
Buddhist Proverb
"The good thing about death is that it brings people back together."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life is uncertain. Death is certain. The only thing that is certain is the nature of life, to change."
Buddha
"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."
Buddha
"All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence."
Buddha
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
Buddha
"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to 'die before you die' — and find that there is no death."
Eckhart Tolle
"The fear of death is the root of all suffering."
Buddha
"He who is in control of his mind is unaffected by death like a mountain standing firm against the winds."
Buddha
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything changes; nothing remains without change."
Buddha
"The only moment is now. There is no living in the past or future. It is a path to suffering."
Buddha
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha
"When there is no desire, there is peace. Let go of desire, and suffer not the suffering of attachment."
Buddha
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Marcus Aurelius
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
Richard Nixon
"The root of suffering is attachment."
Buddha
"Suffering is a part of life. To be human is to know suffering"
Buddha
"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be."
Alan Watts
"There is no greater illusion than the fear of death."
Buddha
"The path to enlightenment is paved with the relinquishment of self-serving desires."
Buddha
"What we think, we become. Therefore, choose thoughts of courage, and peace in the face of death."
Buddha
"The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear."
Buddha
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
Buddha
"Death is just a stepping stone to the next enlightenment."
Buddha
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"Death is a part of life. If you can accept it, you can live fully."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"To be truly alive, we must realize that death can come at any time."
Pema Chödrön
"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."
Lao Tzu
"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well."
Buddha
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
Buddha
"When the thoughts are still, death is no longer feared."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Live every act fully, as if it were your last."
Buddha
"Let go of the idea that you can control the world; accept its transience."
Ajahn Chah
"Our existence here is transient; the fear of death is a misunderstanding of the nature of our being."
Sogyal Rinpoche
"When we are at peace with death, we are at peace with life."
Pema Chödrön
"Death is not to be feared, but to be embraced as part of the cycle of life."
Ajahn Sumedho
"The moment you accept death, you are free to live fully."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life is a flux, and death too is a part of that flux."
Buddha
"Understanding birth and death is understanding life."
D.T. Suzuki
"When faced with death, one is more apt to assess life clearly."
Buddhist saying
"By reflecting on mortality, we awaken to the present moment."
Zen proverb
"The essence of life is change; death is its final transformation."
Sogyal Rinpoche
"If we can be truly mindful, we will not fear death."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"We are born; we die. This is the truth of life, and we must learn to live with it."
Buddha
"What we do in this life matters, for it shapes our journey beyond death."
Tulku Thondup
"Death is simply a return to the oneness from which we came."
Ajahn Chah
"All things must pass, even our fears of death."
Buddha
"Embrace impermanence; embrace life and death as one."
Buddhist saying
"Consider every death as an opportunity for transformation."
Buddhist teaching
"Life is like a river; death is merely a bend in the stream."
Unknown Buddhist proverb
"The wise know that life does not end with death but continues in another form."
Buddhist teaching
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