Memento Mori
Muriel Spark
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.”
“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.”
“Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great”
“Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”
“There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...”
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
“If you don’t remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can’t cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.”
“Her words depressed him. They were like spilt sugar; however much you swept it up some grains would keep grinding under your feet.”
“Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.”
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Book Keywords:
conversation, bad-choices, death, old-age, life, sugar, british-humor, mortality, marriage, married-life, living, meaning
