Sentences with phrase «meditating on mortality»

Frans Hals, Young Man Holding a Skull (1626 - 28) It's hard to shake the idea that Hals somehow painted a portrait of Shakespeare's Hamlet in this dynamic, lifelike, theatrical image of a young man meditating on mortality.

Shakespeare's lines caught me and called me to meditate on mortality.

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And as I have also said a few moments ago, man is the only animal, so far as we know, who is aware of his mortality and who may therefore meditate on the fact that he dies.

There is no need to dwell constantly on mortality; healthy recognition of the reality does not require us to spend much of our time in meditating on the subject.

In her introduction to Portraits in Life and Death, Susan Sontag wrote, `... Fleshed and moist - eyed friends and acquaintances stand, sit, slouch, mostly lie — and are made to appear to meditate on their own mortality... Peter Hujar knows that portraits in life are always, also, portraits in death.»

Memento Mori is a Latin phrase that translates to «remember your mortality,» and was intended to inspire artists to meditate on their understanding of death and what becomes of us all.