memento mori

Noun

Meaning

a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality

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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

Memento mori should be read: don't forget to die. Slavoj Žižek

He was also receiving an updated list of co-workers who had succumbed to the virus every few days, their names and accompanying prayer and dove emojis flashing across his phone screen like memento mori. Source: Internet

The most commonly featured motifs that can be found in Villon's poetry are " carpe diem ", " ubi sunt ", " memento mori " and " danse macabre ". Source: Internet

In some accounts, a companion or public slave would remind him from time to time of his own mortality (a memento mori ). Source: Internet

With skulls arranged as delicately as a tower of profiteroles, this 18th-century memento mori is both morbid and magnificent: We are here today, it seems to say, and gone tomorrow, so make the most of it. Source: Internet

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