100 Remembrance Quotes to Inspire and Uplift Your Spirit

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Famous Remembrance Quotes

Remembrance of things past. — William Shakespeare

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. - Baal Shem Tov

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Baal Shem Tov

Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water? — Ibn Taymiyyah

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. — Thomas Fuller

Memory is the scribe of the soul. — Aristotle

Gratitude is the heart's memory. - Proverbs

Gratitude is the heart's memory. — Proverbs

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. — Bayazid Bastami

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

Make me remember you like you remember me. — The Weeknd

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. — Richard von Weizsaecker

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust

Short Remembrance Quotes

  • Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there. — Grace Ogot
  • I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. — Elie Wiesel
  • The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind. — Logan Pearsall Smith
  • It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them. — Andy Mineo
  • Never forget benefits done you, regardless how small. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • Who does not live to serve does not serve to live. — Mexican Proverbs
  • There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. — William Shakespeare
  • I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. — Alfred the Great
  • Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky
  • I’m known for proving people wrong. Remember that. — Cardi B

Remembrance Image Quotes

In Flanders fields the poppies blow. - John McCrae quote

In Flanders fields the poppies blow. — John McCrae

Memories Recall Quotes

You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories! — Joel Osteen

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child. — Akira Toriyama

Nutrition significantly impacts mental function, memory, and emotional state, influencing the memories we recall and the ones projected into our consciousness. — Gary Brecka

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! — John Irving

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri. — Peter Matthiessen

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness? — Judith McNaught

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Remember Me Quotes

I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity. — Thomas Sankara

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. — A. A. Milne

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for — Al Capone

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. — Benjamin Franklin

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence — Susanna Wesley

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember. — Albert Einstein

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff. — Fats Domino

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember. — Fannie Lou Hamer

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter. — Dr. Seuss

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. — Walter Payton

Day To Remember Quotes

If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world — Albert Einstein

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami

The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember. — Shimon Peres

I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes. — Doreen Virtue

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. — Samuel Adams

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different. — Ralph Boston

Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked. — Winston Churchill

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages. — Bob Parsons

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. — C. S. Lewis

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. — Red Skelton

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More Remembrance Quotes

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah — Ibn Taymiyyah

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad

Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

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. — Rene Magritte

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. — Isabel Allende

Honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in which more than two million Ukrainian Jews died, Ukraine calls on Israel to also recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

I'm sure that in the future, every part of the world will recognize that Holodomor is a huge tragedy for Ukraine, and was actually the destruction of Ukrainian people. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself. — Marcus Aurelius

All your life, you’ll meet people that only want to break you down. Forget them, stand strong with the people who build you up. — Markiplier

These words are mine, I tell them to my boys. You have walked in my footsteps, and now you walk beside me, but eventually pass me by, so that I can see you in front of me. — Bill Miller

We just kept putting off the worry as we focused on the next problem and how to solve it. — Fred Haise

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove. — Holly Holm

I may not be ‘the prettiest’ or have ‘big boobies,’ but I want people to remember me as the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things. — Ellyse Perry

We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress. — Kylian Mbappe

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. — Rudy Giuliani

Worrying will not do anything but make us feel worse than we already do. — Brianna Wiest

I want to be remembered for just being myself and doing what I want to do. — KSI

I promise that we are going to win the league again. — John W. Henry

The riches are in the niches, but the fortune is in the follow-up. — Pat Flynn

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration. — Peggy Whitson

Always make your future bigger than your past. — Dan Sullivan

It is always good to be careful or vigilant. — Didier Deschamps

On upholding openness and cooperation — Xi Jinping

Everything that is meant for you will feel like a deep exhale, as though you are returning home to a place you forgot existed. — Brianna Wiest

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. — Shannon Alder

I encourage and empower each of you to really stand in your truth, to stand for what is right — to continue to respect each other. — Meghan Markle

I beseech you never to deprive me of your most noble patronage and to believe me when I say that I will never forget a prince so replete with goodness and great merits. — Antonio Vivaldi

What I do is temporary, but what I leave behind is forever. — Markiplier

In Conclusion

These quotes often capture the essence of remembrance, reminding us of the significance of cherishing and preserving memories. They help us reflect on the impact that people and moments have had on our lives. Quotes about remembrance can evoke a sense of gratitude for the experiences we shared and the lessons we learned. They encourage us to remember and honor the past while moving forward with a sense of appreciation and understanding.

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