Francis Bacon Quotes, Death Quotes, Fear Quotes

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.

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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Lying Quotes

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Death Quotes , Father Quotes

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

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Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Death Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Dream Quotes

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Sympathy Quotes , Death Quotes

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Leaving Quotes

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

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Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Death Quotes , Dark Quotes

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Death Quotes , Summer Quotes

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.

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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Death Quotes , Medicine Quotes

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Death Quotes

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Death Quotes , Respect Quotes

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Night Quotes

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Death Quotes , Fire Quotes

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Death Quotes , Sleep Quotes