Animal Quote by 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

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying…

— Robert Breault

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

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

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

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

— James Tiptree Jr

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

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision…

— Jon Katz

“The fear of death is an animal passion which must be overcome. Only those who believe in a future life and tremble for sins…

— Anton Chekhov

For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black…

— David Zindell

“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