“One does not learn how to die by killing others.”
Book IX: Ch. 4: Danton – Camille Desmoulins – Fabre d’Églantine.
Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1848 – 1850)
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French writer, politician, diplomat and historian 1768–1848Related quotes
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
La force qui tue est une forme sommaire, grossière de la force. Combien plus variée en ses procédés, combien plus surprenante en ses effets, est l'autre force, celle qui ne tue pas; c'est-à-dire celle qui ne tue pas encore.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 155
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”
Stephen King book Christine
Pt. 1, Ch. 5
Christine (1983)
“Who can be forced has not learned how to die.”
Cogi qui potest nescit mori.
Seneca the Younger Hercules Furens
Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), line 426; (Megara).
Alternate translation: Who can be compelled does not know how to die.
Tragedies
“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist