Life Quotes by Francis Bacon

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

— Francis Bacon

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

— Francis Bacon

Time is the greatest innovator.

— Francis Bacon

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

— Francis Bacon

You can't be more horrific than life itself.

— Francis Bacon

“It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.”

— Francis Bacon

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

— Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

— Francis Bacon

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is…

— Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

— Francis Bacon

“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it”

— Francis Bacon

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

— Francis Bacon

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers…

— Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

— Francis Bacon

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy…

— Francis Bacon

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than…

— Francis Bacon

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment…

— Francis Bacon

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid…

— Francis Bacon

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of…

— Francis Bacon

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but…

— Francis Bacon

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than…

— Francis Bacon

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not…

— Francis Bacon

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you…

— Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.…

— Francis Bacon

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such…

— Francis Bacon

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.…

— Francis Bacon

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,…

— Francis Bacon

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable,…

— Francis Bacon

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...

— Francis Bacon

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

— Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

— Francis Bacon

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

— Francis Bacon

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

— Francis Bacon