Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Dying
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."
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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.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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