Library Quote by Amadou Hampate Ba

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

— Jandy Nelson

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

— Alex Haley

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

— Chinua Achebe

Every death is like the burning of a library.

— Alex Haley

“Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.”

— Amadou Hampâté Bâ

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are…

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

— Amadou Hampate Ba

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

— Mark Plotkin

Death is an ascension to a better library.

— John Donne

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

— Jandy Nelson

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

— Heinrich Heine

Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.

— Hermann Hesse