77 Quotes About Rest-in-peace
- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We are all our own bodies’ visitors.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Escaping death is a temporary victory.
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- Author Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
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Wishing the dead, ‘rest in peace’ is meaningless – it’s something they already have. Resting peacefully is an exclusive desire of the living or do you wish to be disturbed when at rest? Rest peacefully and rest in peace are one and the same thing. The difference is only in our perception.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.
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- Author Liezi
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The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous person to put an end to the misery of desire. Death, then, for everyone is a kind of homecoming. That is why the ancient sages speak of a dying person as a person who is 'going home.
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
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