Remembrance famous quotes
05-15-2025
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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 Karr -
You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
-- Amy Tan -
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 Aciman -
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
-- Andre Gide -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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!
-- Charles Simeon -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
-- Epes Sargent -
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
-- Euripides -
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
-- Frederick Buechner -
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
-- George Santayana -
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti -
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.
-- Giorgio Agamben -
It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect on the tragedy of that day and the events that have unfolded from it, and recommit to the ideals of freedom that epitomize our country and our vow to never forget.
-- Greg Hicks -
We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.
-- Hamza Yusuf -
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
-- Henry Mackenzie -
Khashyah (fear) is to fear Allah until His fear comes between you and your sins - that is true khashyah. And Dhikr (remembrance) is to obey Allah so whoever obeys Him has indeed remembered Him, and whoever does not obey Him is not a dhakir - even if he makes abundant tasbih (glorification) and recites much of Qur'an.
-- Ibn Sirin -
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.
-- James Lane Allen -
We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.
-- James Martineau -
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.
-- James McBride -
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
-- Jane Austen -
If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of unity and plenitude. As every experience emanates from the non-experience which is our real being, the me also bears the scent of its source. This remembering is awakened through those moments of desirelessness and in deep sleep.
-- Jean Klein -
I told you once before,†I said, the words husky from remembrance. “Everyone holds their sins close to their skin.†Fangs gleamed for an instant before Vlad bit into his wrist, pooling up two deep crimson holes. “Then come,†he said, holding it out. “And taste mine.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.
-- John Calvin -
When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.
-- John Maxwell Edmonds -
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all practices.
-- Kirpal Singh -
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.
-- Leslie What -
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of ***** sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.
-- Lodewijk Prins -
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
-- Louis Pasteur -
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
-- Marcel Proust -
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
-- Marty Meehan -
It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.
-- Mary Lamb -
He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
-- Maxim Gorky -
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib -
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
-- Muhammad -
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-- Muriel Spark -
Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself.
-- Nouman Ali Khan -
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.
-- Oscar Milosz -
As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.
-- Otto Weininger -
Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.
-- Ovid -
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
-- Paulo Coelho -
No tongue can express the greatness of the love which Jesus Christ bears to our souls. He did not wish that between Him and His servants there should be any other pledge than Himself, to keep alive the remembrance of Him.
-- Peter of Alcantara -
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
-- Queen Elizabeth II -
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world , every sinful indulgence of our own passions , is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness , and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick bed with thorns and rack our sinking spirits with despair .
-- Reginald Heber -
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.
-- Rene Dubos -
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
-- Rene Magritte -
In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is the reason that a man comes to think of that which otherwise he should never have called to mind? The Holy Spirit brings it to his remembrance; He is a Comforter, bringing to mind useful things at such times when we have most need of them.
-- Richard Sibbes -
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
-- Richard von Weizsaecker -
Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.
-- Robert Evans -
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
-- Robert Reich -
Remembrance is the secret of reconciliation.
-- Rudolf Scharping -
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
-- Rumi -
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
-- Sara Zarr -
Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace
-- Shri Radhe Maa -
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
-- Stanislas de Boufflers -
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
-- Terry Pratchett -
Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.
-- Thomas Paine -
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
-- Victor Hugo -
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
-- Viktor E. Frankl
