Aging Quote by Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

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

— Alex Haley

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

— Amadou Hampate Ba

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

— Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

— Jandy Nelson

Every death is like the burning of a library.

— Alex Haley

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

— Chinua Achebe

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Death is an ascension to a better library.

— John Donne

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

— Mark Plotkin

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

— Amadou Hampate Ba

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then…

— Hugo Ball

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

— Saul Bellow