Quotes About Memento

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

Not as though thou hadst thousands of years to live. Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.

Considerando que é possível tu deixares esta vida a qualquer momento, administra cada ato, palavra e pensamento em consonância com isso.

En cada una de tus acciones, hazte la pregunta ¿Cómo me va en eso?¿no tendré luego que arrepentirme de aquello? Dentro de poco habré muerto y todo se acabara ¿Qué mas puedo buscar, si obro al presente como un ser inteligente, sociable, relacionado, por igualdad de derechos con Dios?

My own hair reposes in a cardboard box in a steamer trunk in my mother's cellar, where I picture it becoming duller and more brittle with each passing year, and possibly moth-eaten; by now it will look like the faced wreaths of hair in Victorian funeral jewelry. Or it may have developed a dry mildew; inside its tissue-paper wrappings it glows faintly, in the darkness of the trunk.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

This isn't a trunk monkey, is it. Nick No. It's not. It's a memento from your enemies. Caleb Yeah, well, at least it makes my heart surgery scar look cooler. Nick

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

We all owe death a life.

Darkness is the only solvent. While it was dark, despite Lucille's pacing and whistling, and despite what must have been dreams (since even Sylvie came to haunt me), it seemed to me that there need not be relic, remnant, margin, residue, memento, bequest, memory, thought, track or trace if only the darkness could be perfect and permanent.

All lives end, but not all conclude.

So many of the books were faded and unreadable. After all, we're all in the same boat. Memento mori

I've kept all of my shirts that wore in the World Cup games, and I'll be giving them to my family to keep.

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

The morning of the offering, NYSE officials on the floor passed out silver bells emblazoned with NYX on the handle. Traders were told to ring them with abandon at the open. While they were billed as a shiny memento, their true purpose—to drown out the expected chorus of boos and catcalls from disaffected specialists—spoke volumes about the turmoil behind the scenes.

It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)

Die uns vorleben wollen wie leicht das Sterben ist Wenn sie uns vorsterben wollten wie leicht wäre das Leben.

there will be sleeping enough in the grave....

No one is immortal. Don't worry too much about your life. Just sing your song... and go.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills its pupils.

When you're moved to find out who you are, study the graves you encounter as you pass by.Inside rest the bones and weightless dust of men once kings and tyrants, wise men, and those who took pride in their noble birth or wealth, their fame, or their beautiful bodies. Yet what good was any of that against time? All mortals come to know Hades in the end. Look toward these to know who you are.

If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever.