Quotes of Souvenir - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. ”

- Robert Blair

“ Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them. ”

- Madame De Stall

“ The desire of our soul is to they name, and to the remembrance of thee. ”

- Bible

“ Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. ”

- Richard von Weizsaecker

“ All photographs are memento mori. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! ”

- Lord Byron

“ If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. ”

- Michael Josephson

“ What the heart has once known, it shall never forget. ”

- Unknown

“ The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ”

- Alden Nowlan

“ Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ”

- Ellen Glasgow

“ The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ It's also a reminder that humanity is not alone and all things, including poor economies, happen for a reason. ”

- Unknown

“ We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. ”

- Bill Vaughn

“ With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. ”

- Unknown

“ There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. ”

- Orson Welles

“ Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. ”

- Bayazid Al Bistami

“ I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it. ”

- Britney Spears

“ At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. ”

- Jorge Luis Borges

“ There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. ”

- Cicero

“ Events like these are reminders of the risks involved in our sport. ”

- John Marshall

“ Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. ”

- Victor Hugo
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