Momento Mori Quotes

“Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

“Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die—what makes this any different from a half hour?”
― leo tolstoy

“How does it feel, whispered Faith, to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place?”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“The restless dead crowded the back of his mind. They strained to be heard, clawing through graves at the back of his skull. hear us, they pled. please, hear us.

And some of them merely chorused giddily you, too, soon.”
― S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath