Quotes about Remembrance
I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget.
— John Donne
Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.
— John Donne
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
— Dan Quayle
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
History: a collection of epitaphs.
— Elbert Hubbard
One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
— John Piper
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
— David Wilkerson
I wish to go on living even after my death.
— Anne Frank
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
— Edith Wharton
When we recount with our community God's answers to our prayers, we are laying spiritual monuments that we hope will have more endurance than mere stones.
— Edward Welch
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
— Albert Schweitzer
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
— St. John Chrysostom