Remembering Quotes
665 quotes by 511 authors
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination…
— Tom Waits
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Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
— C.S. Lewis
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Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,…
— Burton Raffel
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she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing
— Andrea Gibson
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except…
— Stephen King
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She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
— Frank Herbert
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Do something worth remembering.
— Elvis Presley
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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers…
— Ann Brashares
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
— Thornton Wilder
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But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
— Tim O'Brien
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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
— Ann Brashares
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What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.
— Elaine Dundy
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Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.
— Leonard Peltier
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I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the…
— John Christopher
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But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the…
— Rohinton Mistry
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
— Edwidge Danticat
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Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago…
— Jodi Picoult
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Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how…
— Mitch Albom
Who Wrote These Remembering Quotes
511 authors contributed a total of 665 Remembering Quotes, led by these top contributors: