Memento Mori Memento Vivere

Remember you have to live.

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Remember that you have to die is the medieval latin christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality. We give 10 of our net profits to help dig wells in india and africa. Unlike some though these memories are now somewhat tainted while i had grown up with quaint pride and a certain. Especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.

Memento mori were intended to simultaneously serve as memento vivere reminders to live and to live as well as you can. Curating fashion art and collectables for those who recognise that trends lapse whilst character never fades. Remember that you have to die is the medieval latin christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality. Thomas gray s elegy.

Memento vivere quia memento mori remember to live because remember you die. Remember you have to live. I like a lot of people get reminiscent of the past thinking of happy times spent with family when young and so on. Memento vivere quia memento mori.

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 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. 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. 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.

Memento mori are still around but the industrial and the digital ages.