Quotes and Sayings About Remembrance
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If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
-- Agesilaus II -
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
-- Alfred the Great -
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.
-- Alison Croggon -
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.
-- Alphonse KarrSource : Alphonse Karr, Rev. J. Wood (1855). “A Tour Round My Garden”, p.135
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
-- Amy TanSource : Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.267, Penguin
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.
-- Anais Nin -
All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
-- André AcimanSource : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.199, Macmillan
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
-- Andre Gide -
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Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.
-- Andrew Jackson -
It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.
-- Andy Mineo -
We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmasâ€-not “Weep and Repent.†And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .
-- Ayn Rand -
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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
-- Baal Shem Tov -
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
-- Bayazid Bastami -
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
-- Ben Jonson -
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.
-- Brian Andreas -
Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.
-- Brother Lawrence -
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
-- Brother Lawrence -
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My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christs sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the pricking of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory
-- Charles Simeon -
Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!
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Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
-- Chris Marker -
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
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As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.
-- Dan Gillerman -
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
-- Deborah Jowitt -
That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance.
-- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
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Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
-- Edith Hamilton -
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
-- Elie Wiesel