About This Quote
The bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. This quote is a description of the tragic events in Rwanda in 1994. In this tragedy, many people died and many more were killed. However, even though so many people lost their lives, they have absolutely no meaning in the grand scheme of things.
In an interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” Rwandan Genocide-survivor Paul Rusesabagina said that “[t]he guilt that I carry is not really the pain of losing the people that have been killed. It’s more like the pain of knowing that I could have prevented it. So if I had done something different, then maybe some of them would still be alive today.”
Source: Markings
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