Quotes About Memento Mori

#1. Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Hospitals were to her a memento mori in bricks and mortar; an awful reminder of the inevitable end that was coming to all of us but which she felt was best ignored while one got on with the business of life.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord.

Robert Frost

#4. My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull.

Yann Martel

#5. Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect ... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means 'Memento Mori' - remember you must die.

John Furniss

#6. A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

Billy Collins

#7. One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.

Rostam Batmanglij

#8. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

#9. Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)

Peter Swanson

#10. O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.

Ordericus Vitalis

#11. The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Ben Shahn

#12. One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#14. Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries; file them for future reference.

Blanche Ebbutt

#15. If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

David Haye

#16. Dreaming Of A Stranger Destinations

Sheila O'Flanagan

#17. The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.

Isaiah Washington

#18. Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Emil Cioran

#19. Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

Rajneesh

#20. what up? I got a big cock

Macklemore

#21. There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Alain De Botton

#22. There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

Morley Callaghan

#23. Impressive technological development makes us capable of measuring almost everything, but measurement error problems still remain.

Eraldo Banovac