“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“Rammstein is an award-winning music-based German-teaching system for American goths.”
lecture performance at Mueumsquartier, Vienna, 2016
“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.”
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
Variant: He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”
“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live….”
Source: Agnes Grey
“In teaching me the way to live
It taught me how to die.”
My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Statement in al-Quds al-Arabi, as quoted in "Bin Laden: I Didn't Do It" CBS News (12 September 2001); also at Positive Atheism's "Big List of Scary Quotes" http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/scar_l.htm
2000s, 2001
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
