Quotes About Memento

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

The old man took out an extraordinarily beautiful and elegant handkerchief and gave it to her to dry her tears. It was the sort of handkerchief that one might be content to be judged by if it was all that remained of one after one's death.

a memory from one's youth is a lovely thing. It's not easy to get rid of such a memento. Even if now it's passé and pompously banal.

among his very few belongings I found a small, green leather-bound booklet given "to Timothy Donald Fuller with the Compliments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a memento on becoming a citizen of Rhodesia at Umtali on 17th October, 1974." Inside the pamphlet were a few of the sorts of things meant to inspire Rhodesian citizens onward and upward to greater things. A statue of Cecil John Rhodes, looking gouty; that was page 1.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

We have our clothes, some more splendid than others,—this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

'Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he's dead.

Again, I found myself wondering what it must be like to work there, sitting in a room with those miniature urns, a constant reminder that everything you were and everything you'd achieved would one day fit inside.

I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.

Before leaving the property, Vittoria had left this sketch. For him.

o charuto é um verdadeiro Memento homo: convertendo-se pouco a pouco em cinzas, vai lembrando ao homem o fim real e infalível de todas as coisas: é o aviso filosófico, é a sentença fúnebre que nos acompanha em toda a parte (Linha reta e linha curva)

Life is too short because we die.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

I was happy to be in England because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. My mother had every memento you could find on the Queen.

I'm currently shooting 'Ava's Possessions,' which is a really fun movie about a woman who gets possessed by a demon. I call it 'Memento' meets 'The Exorcist.'

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.

He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth not consider, that they themselves by whom he is remembered, shall soon after every one of them be dead; and they likewise that succeed those; until at last all memory, which hitherto by the succession of men admiring and soon after dying hath had its course, be quite extinct.

remember this: in no time at all both you and he will be dead, and shortly after that not even our names will remain.