Michel de Montaigne Quotes

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

I want to live life, not just spend it.

It matters not how long we live but how.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

A good life is a main argument.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.