Francis Bacon Quotes

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I don't want to die.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Don't die like I did.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

She died praying that she might die.

I don't want to hear about my death.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

To have died once is enough.