Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the enduring nature of memory and grief.
Edgar Allan Poe's phrase 'Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance' captures the deep, often painful memories that linger long after a loss. It emphasizes how the process of remembering can be both a tribute to what was lost and a source of continuous sorrow, highlighting the inextricable link between love and grief in the human experience.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a memorial service to honor someone's memory.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
When mind controls man, itβs ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, itβs...Yoga
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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