← Back to quotes

We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. — George Sand

Novel

We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

In the original French

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu

George Sand
Mauprut · 1837
★ 3.6
Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
Suicide
Statement type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Medium
Novel
Time
1837
Person
George Sand
Provenance
Citation
Sand, George. "Mauprat." Revue des deu Monds, Apr.-June 1837. Serial.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet · 1616
Another quote aboutTopic·Suicide

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Suicide
Song · 2000
Stan
Eminem