[Liste] 55 Memento Mori Memento Vivere

Remember to live because you die.

Memento mori memento vivere. Memento mori were intended to simultaneously serve as memento vivere reminders to live and to live as well as you can. Memento mori is also an important literary theme. Especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. I like a lot of people get reminiscent of the past thinking of happy times spent with family when young and so on. Well known literary meditations on death in english prose include sir thomas browne s hydriotaphia urn burial and jeremy taylor s holy living and holy dying these works were part of a jacobean cult of melancholia that marked the end of the elizabethan era in the late eighteenth century literary elegies were a common genre. Curating fashion art and collectables for those who recognise that trends lapse whilst character never fades. That meaning goes back as far as ancient rome when an ordinary man would follow behind a triumphant general on his victory parade whispering to him that he was only a mortal man after all.

Especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. Remember to live because remember you die. 925 sterling silver double sided wax seal pendant necklace. Features the words memento mori remember you will die on one side and memento vivere remember to live on the other 27 military grade stainless steel ball chain pendant measures 1 tall by 6 wide your purchase helps provide clean water in developing countries. Memento mori engendered an opposite imperative memento vivere the latin for remember that you must live less common and of more recent vintage according to the oxford english dictionary memento vivere seems to imply that a preoccupation with death is perhaps unwise and unhealthy. Remember you have to live. Thomas gray s elegy.

Remember you have to live. Memento mori are still around but the industrial and the digital ages. A memento or reminder of death the memento mori has been used for thousands of years as a reflection on the virtues of introspection and humility. Memento vivere quia memento mori. We give 10 of our net profits to help dig wells in india and africa. Memento vivere quia memento mori remember to live because remember you die. Remember that you have to die is the medieval latin christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality.