Welcome to our page dedicated to Remembrance Quotes. In times of reflection and remembrance, words hold a unique power to convey our emotions and pay tribute to those we hold dear in our hearts. Whether you’re commemorating a loved one, honoring a historical event, or simply seeking solace in the beauty of thoughtful words, this collection of remembrance quotes is here to inspire and comfort you.
Throughout this page, you will find a curated selection of poignant quotes that capture the essence of remembrance. These quotes encompass a wide range of sentiments, from profound expressions of love and loss to powerful reflections on the importance of remembering our past. Feel free to explore, copy, and use these quotes to create meaningful tributes, memorialize moments, or enhance your own personal expressions. As you scroll down, you’ll discover an array of heartfelt and impactful quotes that you can use as they are or customize with stylish fonts on images. Let the journey of remembrance begin, and may these words offer you solace and inspiration in your moments of reflection.
The biggest problem is the funerals that don’t exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn’t in the United States. Caitlin Doughty
The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process. Martin McGuinness
I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too. Hilton Als
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God’s loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair. Saint Bernard
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. Julia Ward Howe
World Aids Day is both a day of remembrance and a day of hope. Letitia James
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance. Laurence Housman
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. H. Rap Brown
I believe, and I have always believed, that these events on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day should take place in Auschwitz and that this is the most important place to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. Andrzej Duda
I would say my favorite tattoo is my first tattoo of my father, you know, just the remembrance of him, his legacy and impact that he’s had on my life. He passed away when I was a kid, you know, I got the halo with the angel wings on my back. DeAndre Hopkins
I’ve given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. Elie Wiesel
Remembrance Day is a timely reminder that, in what may be some of Britain’s darkest hours, it is the bravery of millions of ordinary people from all races, religions, and backgrounds that have kept our country’s flame burning and stood up for the values we hold dear. Amber Rudd
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance. Edward Hirsch
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. William Gilmore Simms
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. Simon Newcomb
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. Robert Blair
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. John Keats
Jewish Americans weren’t just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection for Israel, and a distinctive pride in the scope of their success. Ross Douthat
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
The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God’s kindnesses to our remembrance. Henry B. Eyring
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. Galileo Galilei
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. Alexander Pope
Really just about the only remembrance I have from when I was very young is the way Daddy used to place me on the refrigerator and then say, ‘Jump!’ and I’d jump into his arms. It was so much fun for me that even when I got too large for it to happen, I still wanted to do it anyway! Yolanda King
Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls. Mother Angelica
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. Frederick Buechner
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. Jonathan Sacks
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. Gian Carlo Menotti
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering. Andre Aciman
I don’t think I would have made ‘Blank Project; if I hadn’t made ‘Cherry Thing.’ I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in. Neneh Cherry
I love Remembrance Sunday. Katie Hopkins
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. Giacomo Casanova
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion. Dayananda Saraswati
Gold Star Families Remembrance Week gives us an opportunity to honor and recognize the sacrifices made by the families of members of the Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms and secure our nation. Cindy Hyde-Smith
Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. Norman Davies
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross. Jane Grey
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. Queen Elizabeth II
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. H. Rap Brown
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn’t serve anyone, and it’s painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person. Patti Smith
I love in the Old Testament where they talk about Ebenezer so much… stones to remembrance. And it’s like there’s constant stones of remembrance of what God has done. Jeremy Camp
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen
I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob. Diana Rigg
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead. Marty Meehan
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis’ birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. Otis Blackwell
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. Ellen Glasgow
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. Richard von Weizsaecker
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. Marian Wright Edelman
