Remembrance Quotes

404 Remembrance quotes by 299 unique authors

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. — Jane Austen
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… — Anais Nin
All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance. — AndrÃ© Aciman
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. — Sara Zarr
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. — Cormac McCarthy
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? — Terry Pratchett
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought... — William Shakespeare
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
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
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. — Czeslaw Milosz
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with -… — Boris Pasternak
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me,… — Isabel Allende
Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn,… — E E Cummings
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is… — Jack Kerouac
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of… — George Eliot
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear — William Shakespeare
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone. — William Shakespeare
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. — Christopher Paolini

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