"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death." ― Francis Bacon Topic(s): Death Tags: believe More From Francis Bacon "Acorns were good until bread was found." "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." "Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." More In Death "Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."― Soren Kierkegaard "When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."― George Eliot "Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death."― Ray Comfort