Animal Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“When an animal dies, another of the same species may cling to the body, eat the body, or look bored. Bees expel dead bodies…

— Boria Sax

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to…

— Voltaire

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

— William Ernest Hocking

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to…

— Voltaire

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are…

— Leo Buscaglia

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed…

— Ernest Becker

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

— Jon Katz