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Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity , and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.
Memento mori (Latin 'remember death'), or contemplation of death, is considered by the Stoics to be one form of negative visualization, since it trains the practitioner of the inevitability of death, whether that of the practitioner, of one's loved ones, or of everyone.
Skull symbolism is the attachment of symbolic meaning to the human skull. The most common symbolic use of the skull is as a representation of death . Humans can often recognize the buried fragments of an only partially revealed cranium even when other bones may look like shards of stone.
memento mori: remember that [you will] die: remember your mortality; medieval Latin based on "memento moriendum esse" in antiquity. [5] memento vivere: remember to live: meminerunt omnia amantes: lovers remember all: memores acti prudentes futuri: mindful of things done, aware of things to come: Thus, both remembering the past and foreseeing ...
Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...
Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda. Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity', in this context meaning pointlessness, or futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires.
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Cf. "memento mori". vive ut vivas: live so that you may live: The phrase suggests that one should live life to the fullest and without fear of the possible consequences. vivere est cogitare: to live is to think: Authored by Cicero. Cf. "cogito ergo sum". vivere militare est: to live is to fight: Authored by Seneca the Younger in Epistle 96, 5.