Remembrance Quotes

• O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

  

  John Milton
  • Hate
  • Remembrance
  • Beams

• You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Mind
  • Order
  • Morrow

• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Country
  • Car
  • inspirational

• I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sleep
  • Remembrance
  • Jewel

• Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

  

  Deborah Jowitt
  • Movements
  • Mundane
  • Seasoning

• There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.

  

  Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Past

• There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Winter
  • Grace

• I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

  

  Alfred the Great
  • Leave
  • Remembrance
  • Good Work

• There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Heart
  • Remembrance

• You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Learn
  • Philosophy
  • Pleasure

• 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
  • Alive
  • Behinds
  • Remembrance

• Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Forget
  • Faithful
  • Remembrance

• All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

  

  André Aciman
  • Remains
  • Remembrance
  • Dreammaking

• Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memories
  • Gone
  • Burden

• By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Remembrance

• Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

  

  Bayazid Bastami
  • God
  • Remembrance
  • Forgetfulness

• 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
  • Memory
  • Remembrance
  • Monument

• The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.

  

  Tacitus
  • Hold
  • Remembrance
  • Pleasantry

• If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  

  Muriel Spark
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Approach

• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memories
  • Praise
  • Dear

• There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Ignorant
  • Remembrance

• Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Never
  • Remembrance
  • Mournful

• The healthy attitude, the only reasonable one towards a fault made or a sin committed is surely a vigorous shake of one’s moral shoulders, vigorous enough to shake it off and out of remembrance. The sin itself was a sad waste of time and happiness, and absolutely no more should be wasted in lugubriously reflecting on it. Shall we, poor human beings at such a disadvantage from the first in the fight with Fate through the many weaknesses and ailments of our bodies, load our souls as well with an ever-growing burden of regret and penitence? Shall we let a weight of vivid memories break our hearts? How are we to get on with our living if we are continually dropping into sloughs of bitter and often unjust self-reproach? Every morning comes the light, and a fresh chance of doing better. Is it not the sheerest folly and ingratitude to let yesterday spoil the God-given to-day?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Moral
  • Happiness
  • Attitude

• I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Remember
  • Remembrance

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