Belief Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is…

— Mark Rylance

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

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in…

— Peter Matthiessen

“For death is the only certain thing in life,and despite this cliché being an absolute truth, with only the timing varying from one person…

— Daniela Norris

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves…

— Joan Halifax

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

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are…

— Aldous Huxley

Death is one of the kindest acts of nature, it's evolutions way of saving us from the ravages of age.

— Steve Fowler

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

— Dorothee Solle

Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion…

— Harriet McBryde Johnson

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

— Annie Dillard