Francis Bacon Quotes About Fear Of Death

Quotes about: Fear Of Death

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

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Children

  Essays "Of Death" (1625)

• There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Fear, Grief

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

• My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Beautiful, Love Is, Tree

• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Believe

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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