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2. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. This is thy present world, said the Flame to the Spark.

3. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! If some men died and others did not,death would indeed be a most mortifying evil.

4. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

5. All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevelled in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

6. And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.

7. And I still onward haste to my last night; Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; So every day we live, a day we die.

8. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

9. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

10. At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendour of the colourless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides.

11. Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.

12. Before long, alas!this body will lie on the earth,despised, without understanding, like a useless log.

13. But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

14. But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet; And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

15. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

16. Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

17. Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

18. Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the deathof a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

19. Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets,and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

20. Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead.

21. Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

22. Death is implicit in birth.

23. Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift; to many it has come as a favor.

24. Death is the cure for all diseases.

25. Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

26. Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

27. Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

28. Death is the tyrant of the imagination.His reign is insolitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weakhearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch, - aghastly and terrible apprehension.

29. Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

30. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

31. Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

32. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

33. Despise not death, but welcome it, for Nature wills it like all else.

34. Dying is a wild night and a new road.

35. Even as a caterpillar, when coming to an end of a blade of grass, reaches out to another blade of grass and drawsitself over to it, in the same way the Soul, leaving the body and unwisdom behind, reaches out to another body and draws itself over to it.

36. Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being.

37. For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

38. For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

39. Form disciplines force with a merciless severity.

40. From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise.

41. He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

42. He who knows that this body is like froth,and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion,and never see the king of death.

43. He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.

44. How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

45. I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man.

46. I have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my vehicle to the day, "Be with us," when thou shalt re-become myself and others, thyself and me.

47. I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.

48. I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

49. If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

50. If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully andadequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

51. Involvement in a form is the beginning of the death oflife.It is a straightening and a limiting; a bindingand a constricting. Form checks life, thwarts it, and yet enables it to organize. Seen from the point of view of free-moving force, incarceration in a form is extinction.

52. Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

53. It is an obstacle blocking the path of liberation.

54. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

55. It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

56. It is uncertain in what place death may await thee; therefore expect it in any place.

57. Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

58. Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

59. Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep.

60. Life is a dream walking Death is a going home.

61. Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw theunwilling bolts and set us free.

62. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world.

63. Life that breathes now lies still and yet moves fast, rush- ing but firmly fixed in the midst of the resting places.

64. Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain,Thou art gone, and for ever! First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too.

65. Living is death; dying is life.

66. Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

67. Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

68. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river.

69. No evil is honorable:but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

70. Nobody dies prematurely who dies in misery.

71. Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns,for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he entersupon the heritage of a diviner life.

72. Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

73. Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

74. O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole worldwhile we are living.

75. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens;on this side orphans, on that children; on this side captives, on that freemen...

76. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

77. Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fullness divine.

78. Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

79. Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment.

80. Remember the men of old passed away, those of days to come will also pass away:a mortal ripens like corn and like corn is born again.

81. Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads whoBefore us passed the door of Darkness through,Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

82. Terrified, you will flee from the radiance...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the boundless Light of this true Reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved! Do not be frightened or bewildered by the luminous, brilliant, very sharp and clear light of supreme wisdom...Be drawn to it...take refuge in it...Do not take pleasure inthe soft light...Do not be attracted to it or yearn for it.

83. That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

84. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can onlybe eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death into eternal life.

85. That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

86. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulcher. Good God!with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eyeIt is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,and so universal as death, should ever have been designed byProvidence as an evil to mankind.

87. The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

88. The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves.Death is a condition of survival.

89. The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form,and no form can be either infinite or eternal.

90. The fear of death is worse than death.

91. The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

92. The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

93. The immortal comes from the same womb as the mortal.

94. The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

95. The life of the dead one wanders as his nature wills.

96. The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it.

97. The prince who kept the world in awe, The judge whose dictate fix'd the law;The rich, the poor, the great, the small, Are levelled; death confounds 'em all.

98. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universeshall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning.

99. The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,Which hurts and is desired.

100. The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

101. Then shalt dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

102. There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness.

103. There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore,And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more.

104. There is no such thing as death.I n nature nothing dies.

105. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

106. This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity.

107. This is the meaning of Resurrection.

108. This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

109. Thou art myself, my image, and my shadow.

110. To every man upon this earthDeath cometh soon or late, And how can man die betterThan facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?

111. To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.

112. Trust not your own powers till the day of your death.

113. We are not what we appear to be.

114. We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

115. We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

116. We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

117. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

118. Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

119. When a great man dies,for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

120. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns.

121. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

122. Would you extend your narrow span, And make the most of life you can; Would you, when medicines cannot save, Descend with ease into the grave; Calmly retire, like evening light,And cheerful bid the world good night? Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

123. Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod.