These remembrance quotes will inspire you. Remembrance, the act of remembering a person, thing, or event or a memory or recollection.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging remembrance quotes, remembrance sayings, and remembrance proverbs.
Best Remembrance Quotes
- “Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” ~ Omar N. Bradley
- “Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” ~ Mark Twain
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“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ~ Thomas Campbell
- “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ~ Rose Kennedy
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“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear” ~ William Shakespeare
- “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance when they show their scars.” ~ Chris Marker
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“I’ve given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.” ~ Henry Scott Holland
- “Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart.” ~ Vickie Guerrero
- “Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then and there can we really enjoy the beauty of the new leaves and flowers. Likewise, we must clear the murkiness of the past bad experiences from our minds. Life is remembrance in forgetfulness. Forgive what ought to be forgiven; forget what ought to be forgotten. Let us embrace life with renewed vigor. We should be able to face every moment of life with renewed expectation, like a freshly blossomed flower.” ~ Mata Amritanandamayi
- “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“Wherever you are, I am there also.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
- “The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past remembered and unrememberable.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?” ~ Ibn Taymiyyah
- “You have to begin to lose your memory if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all… Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.” ~ Luis Bunuel , Remembrance quotes on memory
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“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.” ~ Steven Wright
- “If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.” ~ Michelangelo , Remembrance quotes on death
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“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “Bravery never goes out of fashion.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
- “Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind–But how could I forget thee?” ~ William Wordsworth
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“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “Remembrance of things past.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.” ~ Arthur Koestler
- “Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.” ~ Andre Gide
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“If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.” ~ Frederick Buechner
- “Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “Grace and remembrance be to you both.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.” ~ Sara Zarr
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“Everyone can remember that which has interested himself.” ~ Plautus
- “You can’t order remembrance out of the mind, and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong tomorrow.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
- “O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
We thank thee for health and remember the sick.
We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless.
We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances stir us to service,
That thy gifts to us may be used for others.
Amen.” ~ Abigail Van Buren - “It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.” ~ Louis Pasteur
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“It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.” ~ Andy Mineo
- “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
Across departed summers: whispers came
From voices, long ago resolved again
Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
As in a spectral mirror wandered there.” ~ Bayard Taylor -
“Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.” ~ Grace Ogot
- “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.” ~ John Keats
- “People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.” ~ Chris Kyle
- “My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.” ~ George Santayana
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“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.” ~ Bertolt Brecht
- “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.” ~ Tan Twan Eng
- “Remembrance is a form of meeting.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.” ~ Baal Shem Tov
- “Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.” ~ Brother Lawrence
- “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
- “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.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “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.” ~ George W. Bush
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“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.” ~ Liane Moriarty
- “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” ~ Cynthia Ozick
- “A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.” ~ Raul Julia
- “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.” ~ Sandra Bernhard
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“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.” ~ Radhanath Swami
- “All that remains is dream making and strange remembrance.” ~ André Aciman