Remembrance Quotes
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. - Unknown
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. - Edward de Bono
Every man's memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. - J.M. Barrie
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. - Austin O'Malley
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. - Pierce Harris
We do not remember days; we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. - Josh Billings
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. - Oscar Wilde
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. - P.D. James
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? - Rainer Maria Rilke
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. - Jean de Boufflers
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
- Emily Dickinson
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. - David Gerrold
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. - Hortense Calisher
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. - Saul Bellow
Memory itself is an internal rumour. - George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. - Robert Brault
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. - Carol Shields
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? - Lord Byron
The past is never dead, it is not even past. - William Faulkner
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. - Thomas Fuller
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened- T.S. Eliot
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. - Cynthia Ozick
Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday. - Mario Rocco
To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.- Thomas Campbell
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. - John Updike
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. - Seneca
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. - Robert Brault
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. - Diane Ackerman
I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
- Witter Bynner, "Coins"
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. - Author Unknown
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.-Simon Newcomb
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.-Marty Meehan
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.-Giacomo Casanova
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.-Julia Ward Howe
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.-Jane Grey
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.-Otis Blackwell
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.-Frederick Buechner
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.-Queen Elizabeth II
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.-Gian Carlo Menotti
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.-William Gilmore Simms
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.-Ellen Glasgow
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.-Robert Blair
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.-John Keats
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.-John Keats
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.-Alexander Pope
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.-Richard von Weizsaecker
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.-Rene Magritte
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.-Laurence Housman