Michel de Montaigne Quotes

But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.