“A right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.”
— Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus
memento mori
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just a little scrapbook where i reblog posts on the topic of death and posts that celebrate life and history. no original content. content warning for death, possibly unreality and occaisonally outdated language
Chop chop chop. Pierre de Hangest, Les Omelies Saint Grégoire pape, Bruges ca. 1470 (BL, Royal 15 D V, fol. 26r)
Francis Minoza and Laurence Minoza are two brothers who make up the design team Nicebleed. Hailing from Cebu City, Philippines, they began creating back in 2008 and haven’t looked back.
Untitled, Christine Brache 2017 //
Portrait of a Woman (Detail), Nicolas de Largillière 1696 //
{Cero Umano}, Gorche 2013 // Apollo et Daphne (Detail),
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Ed van der Elsken — Man with Machine. Durban, South Africa (gelatin silver print, 1959)
Dancer of Uzbek ballet troupe, photo by Dmitry Baltermants (1970)
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
— Oscar Wilde.
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Barry Moser
mor·tal·i·ty
heartials
/môrˈtalədē/
noun
the state of being condemned to the inevitability of death.
Wallace Polsom, The Child is Father of the Man (2018), paper collage, 22.8 x 30.6 cm.