Old person Quote by Simone Schwarz-Bart

“...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

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

— Amadou Hampâté Bâ

“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...”

— Victoria Schwab

“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as I delicately…

— Liz Newman

“All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was…

— Sofia Samatar

“Death is but a tale we must all some day read.”

— William Grave

“Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.”

— Candace Fleming

“Death is a tale we must all someday read.”

— William Grave

“Now and then they would tell old legends and fairy tales about the castle, the way people always do about old castles. But they…

— Mechthild Gläser

“You'll have to make do with the story instead, pieced together from the scraps of old lives. That is all I have.”

— Bernie Mcgill

“I'm a big fan of the local library. I just read a book, but that's another story.”

— British Sea Power

“It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I’d never seen anybody in a library pick up a small…

— Josip Novakovich