Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.