Quotes on Remembrance

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.

Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

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.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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.

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.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.