Remembrance Quotes

Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.

Robert Burton

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward de Bono

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.

Eskimo Legend

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

William Shakespeare

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Francis Bacon

The remembrance of a beloved mother becomes a shadow to all our actions; it precedes or follows them.

Unknown

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

Thomas Campbell

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Robert J. Collier

Cursed is this world and cursed is all that is in this world, except the remembrance of God and that which aideth thereto.

Muhammad

My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

Napoleon Bonaparte