Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
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.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure
Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.
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.
The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d'une femme - Est plus long qu'une larme.)
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.
A beadlet dribbles down her cheek to wake a wet remembrance where the insincere took hold to empty forth her wounded heart.
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.
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.
Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!
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
The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.
If we must die, then let us die fighting a battle worthy of remembrance in the tales of our descendants!
There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.
