Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.
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.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself.
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
[Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
A woman's heart should be so lost in the remembrance of Allah, that a man would have to seek him first in order to find her.
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
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.
Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.
Remembrance of our kiss brings not your lips nor mine to mind. The flesh can only envy consumption so divine.
Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you.
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.
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.
There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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.
I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.
Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.
That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance.
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
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.
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.
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