memento mori

Still others have found the pandemic has served as an unwelcome memento mori, reminding people who have put aside personal or professional goals that they don’t have an infinite amount of time to get things done.

It would be novel, economical, and moral; a kind of memento mori—a death's head at the feast!

There is a series of songs in his collection which might be respectively entitled 'Memento mori' and 'Memento vivere.'

Now, Nietzsche voiced the revolt of those temperaments whose ears were attuned rather to "Memento vivere" than "Memento mori."

His mighty body was left as a memento mori to the valiant bull who succeeded him in the affections of his widows and offspring.

The initials of her name, M. H. are smoked upon the ceiling as a kind of memento mori to the next inhabitant.