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 err… - Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Het verleden is altijd tegenwoordig.
(The past is always present.)

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals the same features, hides beneath its impenetrable mantle the self-same treasure. For this is the essential silence of our soul, our most inviolable sanctuary, and its secret can never be lost;

It is not the arrival of death, but the departure of life that is appalling. It is not death, but life that we must act upon. It is not death that attacks life; it is life that wrongfully resists death.