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  • Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

    Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.94, New Directions Publishing
  • I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

  • Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

    Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan
  • We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms, a Collection of Illustrative Extracts from the Whole Range of Literature, a Series of Homiletical Hints Upon Almost Every Verse, and Lists of Writers Upon Each Psalm. Ps. 1-26. I”, p.309
  • 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.

    Cities   Ideas   Vampire  
    Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
  • 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.

  • It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt

  • Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

    Stupid   Mind   Important  
    "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 209, 1909.
  • Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

    Nice   Lying   Believe  
  • In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.

    Art   Book   Mean  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

    God   Art   Religion  
    Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
  • Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

    "Memento Mori". Book by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. 2000.
  • To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

    Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta
  • Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  • 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.

    Art   Ambition   Skulls  
    Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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