Resquiat in Pace ...
“Lacrimosa dies illa/Qua resurget ex favilla/Judicandus homo reus./Huic ergo parce, Deus,/Pie Jesu Deus,/Dona eis requiem…”
(trans. “Mournful that day when mankind will rise from the ashes to be judged. Therefore God, merciful Lord Jesus, grant him rest…”)
--Requiem Mass“Dies irae, dies illa/solvet saeclum in favilla/Teste David cum Sybilla/Quantus tremor est futurus/Quando Judex est venturus/Cuncta stricte discussurus.”
(trans. “Day of wrath, that day will consume the world in ashes as testified by David and the Sybil. What trembling there will be when the Judge is come to judge all things strictly.”)
--Requiem Mass“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering - stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all.”
--Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”
--Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
–J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan“I’ll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don’t wait for the last judgment. It happens every day.”
--Camus“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.”
–Voltaire“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
–Edvard Munch“Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.”
--Robert Anthony