Animal Quote by Jon Katz

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 learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to…

— Steven Spielberg

A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream up the…

— Neal Stephenson

Life is no way to treat an animal.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not want an animal to die for me.

— Sylvie Guillem

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are…

— Edward Thorndike

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

— Tippi Hedren

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

“Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals…

— J. M. Coetzee