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A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
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.
I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.
Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.
As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.