"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing." ― Maurice Maeterlinck Topic(s): Death More From Maurice Maeterlinck "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand." "Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance." "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." More In Death "Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."― John Donne "Death solves all problems – no man, no problem."― Joseph Stalin "When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death."― Tammy Bruce