Francis Bacon Quotes

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

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

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

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais lying in my heart.

I don't want to die.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

We have our moments of emotional vulnerabilities as any other human being, and my greatest fear gnawing away at me is losing my loved ones.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.