Memento Mori

 "O Lord, my substance is nothing before Thee." - Psalm 38:6

"Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Gen 3:19).  Dust has no substance, the lightest breath will disperse it.  It is a good representation of man's nothingness.

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"Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die ... then there will be many things about which you care nothing." - Teresa of Avila

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All is vanity except to love God and serve Him alone.

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"In all they works, remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin." - Sir 7:40

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"Death exists, and we should reflect on it, not in order to distress ourselves, but to arouse ourselves to do good. The thought of death places before our eyes the vanity of earthly things and the brevity of life, and therefore it urges us to detach ourselves from everything, to scorn every earthly satisfaction, and to seek God alone. The thought of death makes us understand that 'all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.'" - Father Gabriel

Your home must be in heaven, and you should look upon all earthly things as passing. All things pass away, and you too, along with them.” -Imitation of Christ

“A man’s entire life should be a continual preparation for death.” — St. John Bosco

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"An excellent way of preserving ourselves from relapsing into serious sin, is to say every evening, 'tomorrow I may be dead.'" - St. Philip Neri

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Nothing is permanent under the sun, death takes all things away. Do not strive for perishable riches or fix hope on them.  Do not love what is speedily passing away.

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It is certain you must die.  It is uncertain when, where, and how.

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Will you live to see tomorrow?

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"Remember thy last end."  Death will not spare you.  At the end of life, there will be a strict judgment.  A never-ending existence will come after this life.  Once you meet death, the time for mercy is over.  Then you will meet only justice.

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Your daily life is your preparation for eternal life.

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"It takes but the event of a moment to end our lives - an accident, a fall, a slash of a vein, a stubborn fever, pneumonia, a heart attack, and we are gone... Let us always live in a kind of holy fear, on our guard, watchful, realizing that our body is subject to corruption." - Blessed James Alberione

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"My children, should death strike now, would you be ready?" - St. John Bosco

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"Does it pay to take such exquisite care of the body that is destined to become a skeleton? ... What about the soul?  Do we give it any thought?" - Bl. James Alberione

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A very little while and all will be over with thee here.  Do now, beloved, do now all you can; for you know not when you will die.   In all things, look to the end and how you will stand before the strict judge." - Imitation of Christ

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"Live so as not to fear death.  For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening but sweet and precious." - St. Rose of Viterbo

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The goal of Catholic life is to die a saint. 

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“Quid hoc ad aeternitatem?” - All day long, in every varying circumstance, may my watchword be: “How does this look in the light of eternity?”