remembrance

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
8e2eec7	You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.	past remembrance pleasure	Jane Austen
6c89746	When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.	the-past remembrance	Margaret Atwood
2cfe921	Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?	immortality remembrance	Terry Pratchett
ae9bc97	There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.	remembrance	Isabel Allende
fa2fec0	It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory	inspirational remembrance	Paulo Coelho
286a506	The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.	good death reputation deeds legacy remembrance evil	William Shakespeare
0473612	You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.	understanding remembrance knowledge memory	Amy Tan
2604489	Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn And broils roots out the work of masonry, Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till judgement that yourself arise, You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.	sonnet-55 monuments fame remembrance posterity memory	William Shakespeare
431d935	The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.	remembrance	Elizabeth Kostova
67eeb6a	As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.	persistence death persist remembrance wine	Thomas Pynchon
b674291	There is in this valley a beating heart. It is always and ever there. And when I am gone, it will beat for you and when you are gone, it will beat for your children and theirs, forever. Forever. Until there is no water, no air, no green in the spring or gold in the autumn, no stars in the sky or wind from the north. And when you cannot speak, it will speak for you. When you cannot see, it will be your eyes. When you cannot remember, it will be your memory. It will never forget you. And when you cannot be faithful, it will save a place for your return. This is a gift to you. It cannot be taken away. It is yours forever. It is the narrative of this world, and the scrapbook of your own small life, and, when you are gone into ash and darkness and the grave, it will tell your story.	remembrance	Robert Goolrick
4624b45	I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone -	skeleton transience melancholy remembrance	Mervyn Peake
cdb8a41	When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody.	loneliness past haruki-murakami i remembrance lonely	Haruki Murakami
00d67e6	. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.	human love perish remembrance remember memory	Denis Johnson
e2116c9	Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.	past remembrance	P.D. James
23869af	Wie ich heimschritt bemerkte ich mit einemmal vor mir meinen eigenen Schatten so wie ich den Schatten des anderen Krieges hinter dem jetzigen sah. Er ist durch all diese Zeit nicht mehr von mir gewichen dieser Schatten er uberhing jeden meiner Gedanken bei Tag und bei Nacht vielleicht liegt sein dunkler Umriss auch auf manchen Blattern dieses Buches. Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzten doch auch Kind des Lichts und nur wer Helles und Dunkles Krieg und Frieden Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.	mourning war remembrance europe peace	Stefan Zweig
73b22e3	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.	paradox remembrance	Margaret Atwood
00d98f8	And even if we are occupied by most important things, if we attain to honour, or fall into great misfortune -- still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us...better perhaps than we are.	remembrance	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48149f1	A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm supposed to be doing something else--but I also can't last a day without seeing them. Visiting with them when I am alone in the house.	remembrance	Chris Bohjalian
b9a7abd	Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him strangers will bear report to the whole wide world, and distant men will praise him. - Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364)	kindness success penelope meaning-of-life legacy remembrance respect	Robert Fitzgerald
c6ec676	It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.	names individuality memories remembrance	Lois Lowry
0285bcd	I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.	poetry remembrance	Daphne du Maurier
5f8e161	"Live," he whispered. "For my Chaya. For all our Chayas. Live. And remember." --	remembrance jewish	Jane Yolen
bee5d53	Sjecaj me se s ruzom - rekao joj je.	memories remembrance	Gabriel García Márquez
3317004	Every man in the chapel hoped that when his hour came he, too, would be eulogized, which is to say forgiven, and that all of his lapses, greeds, errors, and strayings from the truth would be invested with coherence and looked upon with charity. This was perhaps the last thing humans could give each other and it was what they demanded, after all, of the Lord.	death eulogies funerals generosity remembrance forgiveness	James Baldwin
a8fab69	We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead, Full of the grateful peace That follows her release; For nothing but the weary dust lies dead.	emotion joy death sadness remembrance	Louisa May Alcott
ffb33b4	"I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don't want to be "just another patient". I wanted to be "special". I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn't forget. I'd exist then. (Marge's letter to Yalom)"	existential remembrance self-esteem psychology	Irvin D. Yalom

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

6c89746

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

the-past remembrance

Margaret Atwood

2cfe921

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

immortality remembrance

Terry Pratchett

ae9bc97

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

remembrance

Isabel Allende

fa2fec0

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

inspirational remembrance

Paulo Coelho

286a506

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

good death reputation deeds legacy remembrance evil

William Shakespeare

0473612

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

understanding remembrance knowledge memory

Amy Tan

2604489

Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn And broils roots out the work of masonry, Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till judgement that yourself arise, You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.

sonnet-55 monuments fame remembrance posterity memory

William Shakespeare

431d935

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

remembrance

Elizabeth Kostova

67eeb6a

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

persistence death persist remembrance wine

Thomas Pynchon

b674291

There is in this valley a beating heart. It is always and ever there. And when I am gone, it will beat for you and when you are gone, it will beat for your children and theirs, forever. Forever. Until there is no water, no air, no green in the spring or gold in the autumn, no stars in the sky or wind from the north. And when you cannot speak, it will speak for you. When you cannot see, it will be your eyes. When you cannot remember, it will be your memory. It will never forget you. And when you cannot be faithful, it will save a place for your return. This is a gift to you. It cannot be taken away. It is yours forever. It is the narrative of this world, and the scrapbook of your own small life, and, when you are gone into ash and darkness and the grave, it will tell your story.

remembrance

Robert Goolrick

4624b45

I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone -

skeleton transience melancholy remembrance

Mervyn Peake

cdb8a41

When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody.

loneliness past haruki-murakami i remembrance lonely

Haruki Murakami

00d67e6

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.

human love perish remembrance remember memory

Denis Johnson

e2116c9

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

past remembrance

P.D. James

23869af

Wie ich heimschritt bemerkte ich mit einemmal vor mir meinen eigenen Schatten so wie ich den Schatten des anderen Krieges hinter dem jetzigen sah. Er ist durch all diese Zeit nicht mehr von mir gewichen dieser Schatten er uberhing jeden meiner Gedanken bei Tag und bei Nacht vielleicht liegt sein dunkler Umriss auch auf manchen Blattern dieses Buches. Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzten doch auch Kind des Lichts und nur wer Helles und Dunkles Krieg und Frieden Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.

mourning war remembrance europe peace

Stefan Zweig

73b22e3

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.

paradox remembrance

Margaret Atwood

00d98f8

And even if we are occupied by most important things, if we attain to honour, or fall into great misfortune -- still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us...better perhaps than we are.

remembrance

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

48149f1

A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm supposed to be doing something else--but I also can't last a day without seeing them. Visiting with them when I am alone in the house.

remembrance

Chris Bohjalian

b9a7abd

Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him strangers will bear report to the whole wide world, and distant men will praise him. - Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364)

kindness success penelope meaning-of-life legacy remembrance respect

Robert Fitzgerald

c6ec676

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

names individuality memories remembrance

Lois Lowry

0285bcd

I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.

poetry remembrance

Daphne du Maurier

5f8e161

"Live," he whispered. "For my Chaya. For all our Chayas. Live. And remember." --

remembrance jewish

Jane Yolen

bee5d53

Sjecaj me se s ruzom - rekao joj je.

memories remembrance

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

3317004

Every man in the chapel hoped that when his hour came he, too, would be eulogized, which is to say forgiven, and that all of his lapses, greeds, errors, and strayings from the truth would be invested with coherence and looked upon with charity. This was perhaps the last thing humans could give each other and it was what they demanded, after all, of the Lord.

death eulogies funerals generosity remembrance forgiveness

James Baldwin

a8fab69

We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead, Full of the grateful peace That follows her release; For nothing but the weary dust lies dead.

emotion joy death sadness remembrance

Louisa May Alcott

ffb33b4

"I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don't want to be "just another patient". I wanted to be "special". I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn't forget. I'd exist then. (Marge's letter to Yalom)"

existential remembrance self-esteem psychology

Irvin D. Yalom