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Jack Black

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I'm fairly certain YOLO is Carpe Diem for stupid poeple.

 
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The same lesson [of the pessimistic pleasure-seeker] was taught by the very powerful and very desolate philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.

 
Oscar Wilde
 

...dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

 
Horace
 

The underlying theme of Western poetry is mortality. The theme of carpe diem asks us to seize the day because we have only a limited number of them. To see life through the lens of death is to approach the condition of gratitude for the gift (or simply the fact) of our existence. And as Wallace Stevens said, Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

 
Billy Collins
 

Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus.

 
Terence
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