77 Quotes About Rest-in-peace

Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.

We are all our own bodies’ visitors.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

Escaping death is a temporary victory.

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.

The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.

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.

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

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.