Francis Bacon Quotes on Death
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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.
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:death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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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.
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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.
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The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?