All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.


Our Eternity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its...

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its...

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its...

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its...