Carpe diem will someday die. It is medieval Latin, dating to 1287. Related but distinct is the expression "memento mori" (remember that you are mortal) which carries some of the same connotation as . For Horace, mindfulness of our own mortality is key in making us realize the importance of the moment. "Remember that you are mortal, so seize the day." Over time the phrase also came to be associated with penitence, as suggested in many vanitas paintings. Today many listeners will take the two phrases as representing almost opposite approaches, with urging us to savour life and urging us to resist
Carpe diem diem" as his guiding philosophy. Carpe diem is the second-person singular present active imperative of "carpō" "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". "Diem" is the accusative of "dies" "day". A more literal translation of would thus be "pluck the day [as it is ripe]"—that is, enjoy the moment. Text from "Odes" : Perhaps the first written expression of the concept is the advice given by Siduri to Gilgamesh, telling him to forgo his mourning and embrace life although some scholars see it as simply urging Gilgamesh to abandon his mourning, "reversing the