Advantages Quote by Voltaire

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

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

“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

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

— Ray Comfort

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

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

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ...…

— John Muir

Unlike other animals, all of which are undoubtedly oblivious to their eventual demise, humans are fully aware that their time on Earth is limited.…

— Gad Saad

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

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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer