Remembrance Quotes

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

~ Antonio Porchia

There are two ways to live a life either forget everything or, remember nothing.

~ Santosh Kalwar

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

~ Paulo Coelho

Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…

~ Abhimanyu Jha

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.

~ Johnathan Jena

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

~ Heather Chaplin

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.

~ Amit Ray

Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evaluate. Contrasting memories enable us to ascertain what is true and false, and determine what is charming, attractive, stunning, or sublime. Remembrance of the past serves to comfort us, awareness of the future offers us hope, while our dutiful engagement in the present is capable of arresting our complete attention.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

~ Thomas Campbell

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

~ Terry Pratchett

The evil that men do lives after them,The good is oft interred with their bones.

~ William Shakespeare

There is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you. - Martha Carrier to her daughter, Sarah Carrier

~ Kathleen Kent

When someone dies they can be any age you remember can't they ' she asked. As I tried to think of a reply she continued 'You probably think about the grown-up Tess because you were still close to her. But when I woke up I thought of her when she was three wearing a fairy skirt I'd got her in the Woolworth's and a policeman's helmet. Her wand was a wooden spoon. On the bus yesterday I imagined holding her when she was two days old. I felt the warmth of her. I remembered all her fingers clasped around my finger so tiny they didn't even meet. I remembered the shape of her head and stroking the nape of her neck till she slept. I remembered her smell. She smelled of innocence. Other times she's thirteen and so pretty that I worry for her everytime I see a man look at her. All of those Tesses is my daughter.

~ Rosamund Lupton

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

~ Alexander Pope

I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Appreciation and remembrance are two vital tools that can advance our progress in life.

~ Wisdom Kwashie Mensah (Wkm)

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

~ Amy Tan

Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...

~ Dante Alighieri

Men's lives are short .The hard man and his cruelties will beCursed behind his back and mocked in death.But one whose heart and ways are kind - of himstrangers will bear report to the whole wide world,and distant men will praise him.- Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364)

~ Robert Fitzgerald

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Any time gone by was better.

~ Jorge Manrique

We all have an inner voice, our personal whisper from the universe. All we have to do is listen -- feel and sense it with an open heart. Sometimes it whispers of intuition or precognition. Other times, it whispers an awareness, a remembrance from another plane. Dare to listen. Dare to hear with your heart.

~ C.j. Heck

Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.

~ Jeffrey Fry

What I cannot tough, remains a memory, I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be

~ -Ayushee Ghoshal

What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.

~ Ayushee Ghoshal

After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.

~ Steve Goodier

Friends come into our lives and friends leave our lives. But friends never leave our hearts. And best friends always get to stay in the best places in our hearts.

~ John M. Simmons

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

~ Laurence Binyon

In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.

~ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Have we forgotten the laws of God?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes you just have to step outside the box and take a leap of faith. You may not be able to see what's on the other side, but you can't remain in the same place. Fear is what keeps you there. If you want something badly enough you'll take the steps to get there. If you believe it, then you can achieve it.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.

~ William Shakespeare

Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.

~ Melissa Grey

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

~ P.d. James

I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace.

~ Tanya Masse