Remembrance Quotes - Page 5

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]

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

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.

There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.

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.

If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

Grace and remembrance be to you both.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.