Remembrance Quotes
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"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."
"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."
"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."
"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones."
"You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know."
"Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…"
"Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?"
"Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom."
"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"
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."
"Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!"
"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."
"Appreciation and remembrance are two vital tools that can advance our progress in life."
"Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain..."
"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)"
"Any time gone by was better."
"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, Bits and Pieces: Short Stories from a Writer's Soul
"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."
"Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever."
"What I cannot tough, remains a memory, I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be"
-Ayushee Ghoshal, 4 AM Conversations with the Ghosts of Old Lovers
"What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be."
"After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Have we forgotten the laws of God?"
"The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d'une femme - Est plus long qu'une larme.)"
"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."
"Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting."
"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."
"I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love."
"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."
"It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful."
"My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries about everything—worries incessantly—worries on behalf of others when she feels they are not worrying adequately for themselves.And my mother misses her own mother, my grandmother, immensely, who only has a past now; who is only allowed to be as we remember her."
"The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget."
"My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected by this era were not just statistics: they were people just like we are, with the same hopes, dreams, and very imminent fears."
"I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be “just another patient”. I wanted to be “special”. I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn’t forget. I’d exist then. (Marge’s letter to Yalom)"
Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
"Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death."
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon
"I have to live if I want to be remembered."
"The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them."
"The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead."
"Déjà vu is simply remembrance of the future."
"Remembrance is acknowledging that a life was lived ...My father finally wrote out his memories for a reason. I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real.Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth. Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward."
Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
"I'm out, surrounded in dark. But in the distance there is a small glow, a tiny light. Suddenly I'm standing alone, the space starting to brighten as the light grows."
"It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead."
"I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life."
"I release ribbons of gratitude to flow back upon the path I have walked as it stretches out behind me, so they brush past everyone whose path crossed my own. May they feel the brief kiss of remembrance within their hearts, there and then gone again, passing like a spring breeze, so that they suddenly know the things they have done for others, in so many ways big and small, seen and unseen alike, somewhere are known and treasured."
"Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives."
Richard Holloway, On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgiveable?
"I said out loud, "Damn you for saving yourself. How come you left me with nothing but to love you and hate you, and that's gonna kill me, and you know it is."Then I turned round, went back to the cellar room, and picked up the sewing.Don't think she wasn't in every stitch I worked. She was in the wind and the rain and the creaking from the rocker. She sat on the wall with the birds and stared at me. When darkness fell, she fell with it."
"A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm supposed to be doing something else--but I also can't last a day without seeing them. Visiting with them when I am alone in the house."
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