Tattoo

I am wanted to do tatoo in which she puts the following thing, “the time is life, the time is death” but in Latin.
Of life I want that branches and leaves with alive colors leave some and, on the contrary, of death I want that they leave some raizes with dull colors and as if the word death was ash-gray and the wind would try it to take.
This tatoo has a big sentimental meaning because it will be like the mausoleum of all these dear persons like which they have had to go away for a caprice of the nature, which would like to be surrounded with good persons and would take them.