Top 33 Remembrance Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Remembrance Quotes from famous people such as Alexander Pope, Jane Grey, Caitlin Doughty, Elie Wiesel, Rene Magritte, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partit

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope
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
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
I’ve given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
Elie Wiesel
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
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 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
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
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
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
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Frederick Buechner
Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.
Norman Davies
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Ellen Glasgow
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Gian Carlo Menotti
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Robert Blair
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
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
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 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
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
I love Remembrance Sunday.
Katie Hopkins
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
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
Andre Aciman
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 th

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
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