Death Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we…

— Don DeLillo

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

— Anonymous

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

— Arianna Huffington

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

— T.A. Barron

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

— S. Jay Olshansky

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

— Blaise Pascal

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

— Jeanne Moreau

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

— Anna Quindlen

“There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by…

— Rilke, Rainer Maria

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning