This is one of the most beautiful and moving memento mori that I’ve ever come across. This statue of a weeping angel is from the Montjuïc Cemetery, located in Barcelona, Spain. It has a rich history and is a hidden gem. I definitely recommend checking out this blog; which features some of the most beautiful …
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is a self-portrait painted in 1872 by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin. “The painting depicts a bearded Böcklin stalked by a personification of death playing a single-stringed violin in an intimation of his mortality. It is an echo of an earlier painting of Sir Brian Tuke by an anonymous painter c.1540, …
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John Danaher: “…I do believe that death is the single most important element in life, that gives value to our days…ultimately you know your life is finite, and actually very finite, and could be even more so if fate plays its hand and you die an early death or what have you, we never know …
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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way …
Found Drowned is an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, c. 1850, inspired by Thomas Hood‘s 1844 poem The Bridge of Sighs. The painting depicts the dead body of a woman washed up beneath the arch of Waterloo Bridge, with her lower body still immersed in the water of the River Thames. She is presumed …
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Pause a moment as you pass by. As you are now, so once were we. As we are now, so shall you be! This is an old epitaph, featured on many tombstones in various forms and sometimes posted on the entrances to graveyards. It is a sober reminder of our mortality and the shortness of …
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“This Japanese artist painstakingly creates installation artwork out of salt, in honour of his sister who died aged 24 of brain cancer. His intricate works use between 400 pounds to seven tons of table salt each, arranged in various patterns resembling lace, sea foam, or blood vessels. At the end of every exhibition, Yamamoto …
Oak Fractured by Lightning is an allegorical painting by Russian landscape painter Maksim Nikiforovich Vorobyov (Максим Никифорович Воробьёв) of the death of his wife. The thick, tempestuous dark clouds symbolize the painter’s misery and anguish at the death of his wife, while the sudden flash of lightning reminds us of how quick death can strike. …
***A memento mori is a reminder of death. It is a key practice in Stoicism but is not unique to it. It can be a simple visual reminder or quote or a more serious mediation on death. Stoics use it to remind themselves of how short and fragile life is and therefore how much we have to …
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***A memento mori is a reminder of death. It is a key practice in Stoicism but is not unique to it. It can be a simple visual reminder or quote or a more serious mediation on death. Stoics use it to remind themselves of how short and fragile life is and therefore how much we …
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