Remembrance Quotations | Page 2

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

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

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

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Grace and remembrance be to you both.

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

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

Remembrance of things past.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

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

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...

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 remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

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.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

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