7 Francis Bacon Quotes on Death

Francis Bacon quotes on death

10. I bequeath my soul to God... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

13. :death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

69. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

70. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupieth it.

144. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.

145. Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

146. What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?