10 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Death

Rabindranath Tagore quotes on death

50. Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

51. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

80. In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realise the infinite. It is death which is monistic, it has no life in it. But life is dualistic; it has an appearance as well as truth; and death is that appearance, that maya, which is an inseparable companion to life.

85. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

89. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

97. Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

100. Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.

127. The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.

148. The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

151. There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its continuation after death only because of their wish for permanence and not perfection; they love to imagine that the things to which they are accustomed will persist for ever. They completely identify themselves in their minds with their fixed surroundings and with whatever they have gathered, and to have to leave these is death for them. They forget that the true meaning of living is outliving, it is ever growing out of itself.