Death

Quotes on death.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
- Buddha

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Khalil Gibran

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
- Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”
-Nelson Mandela
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I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
- Nelson Mandela