When one dies, the only items taken with one are one’s good and bad deeds.None of the power, the money, the position, the prestige, the vigorous beauty of the body, the culture of the personality - these things are all gone, and therefore what folly to work for them.(CWBSSB, p. 18)

Man weeps when he is born, he should not weep when he dies. He must die, triumphant over death.(SSS Vol.8, p. 136)

Man should not die like a cat or a dog. He should leave the world better and happier than when he came into it. He must get away, full of gratitude for the chance given to him to see God in everything that he saw, heard, touched, smelt and tasted. He must remember the Lord, with his last breath. (SSS Vol.3, p. 90)

You should not die like that man; you must die like Bhishma. He lay on the bed of arrows while he taught the Shantiparva to the Pandavas, and he died with Krishna before him and in his heart. Death is considered as something to be afraid of; as something that should not be spoken about in happy circumstances. But, death is neither good nor bad. You have no choice in the matter. You can’t get it sooner if you welcome it; nor can you avoid it if you condemn it as bad. It is a consummation, which is inevitable; from the moment of birth, the march to the cremation ground has started. Some reach the place quicker than others; some go by a round about route and arrive late.(SSS Vol.3, p. 91)

Man has known everything else, except death. Why should a person die? The answer is in order that he may not die again. He is born, so that he may not get born again.(DM, p. 261)