Famous Quotes

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

Maurice Maeterlinck on Death

More quotes about Death

• "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Death

• "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

  Buddha on Death

• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

  Albert Einstein on Death

• "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

  Mark Twain on Death

• "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

  Helen Keller on Death

More quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

• "We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

• "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

• "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."

• "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

• "Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."