10 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Death

Michel de Montaigne quotes on death

8. Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

10. He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

11. The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

12. Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

13. Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

14. All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

61. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

84. If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

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

116. The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.