Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Death
-
Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.
-
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
-
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
-
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
-
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.
-
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
-
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
-
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.
-
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
-
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.