Quotes and Sayings about Remembrance
"Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Remembrance)
"If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child."
- Frederick Buechner
(Related: Remembrance)
"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
(Related: Time, Now, Past, Remembrance)
"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Desire, Nothing, Remembrance)
"I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross."
- Jane Grey
(Related: Blood, Body, Christ, Remembrance, Wine)
"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: Wife, Books, Remembrance, Years)
"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
(Related: Happiness, Fear, Feeling, Future, Melancholy, Nothing, Past, Remembrance)
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
- John Keats
(Related: Poetry, Thoughts, Remembrance)
"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
- John Keats
(Related: Poetry, Thoughts, Excess, Remembrance)
"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
(Related: Being, Mind, Remembrance)
"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
(Related: History, Work, Lies, Months, Remembrance, Tribute, Years)
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
- Gian Carlo Menotti
(Related: Quality, Remembrance)
"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."
- Simon Newcomb
(Related: Habit, Adversity, Emotions, Enjoyment, Prosperity, Remembrance, Self, Years, Zest)
"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Thought, Reflection, Remembrance, Sense)
"Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent."
- William Gilmore Simms
(Related: Men, Remembrance)
"Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Will)
"Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance."
- Richard von Weizsaecker
(Related: Forget, Lies, Remembrance)