Remembrance Quotes

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Rossiter W. Raymond

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

Edward de Bono

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

French Proverb

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day. (2 Timothy 1:3)

Bible

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

Jean de Boufflers

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

The Wonder Years

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

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

Robert Brault

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barber

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there.

Isla Paschal Richardson

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

Unknown

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

Robert J. Collier

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