memento mori
Example Sentences
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It is a chronicle, an accounting, a memento mori.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025
Not even “Orange Grove Estates” as a memento mori.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
The intoning of memento mori seeds a joyful duty toward the pursuit of human longevity as an act of grateful humility before the wonder of life.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023
It makes for an unusual memento mori — though not, perhaps, as strange as a 19th-century yellow-glazed redware flask in the shape of an English outhouse.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
