“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”
Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone
Source: Cutting for Stone
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American psychiatrist 1926–2004Related quotes
“In teaching me the way to live
It taught me how to die.”
George Pope Morris (1802–1864) American publisher
My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“He taught them how to live and how to die.”
William Somervile (1675–1742) English poet
In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore, line 21.
“There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81. Compare: "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Montaigne, Essay, book i. chap. ix.; "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die", Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903; "Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die", Beilby Porteus, Death, line 316; "He taught them how to live and how to die", Somerville, In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.
Context: There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
A candid censor, and a friend severe;
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Poetry in War and Peace”, p. 129
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live….”
Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey
Source: Agnes Grey
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)