Quotes About Remembrance

That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories.

Like most veterans, they would continue their lives saying that the truest heroes were the men who did not come back.

I remember remembering," she muttered, sitting down with a heavy sigh; she pulled her legs up to wrap her arms around her knees. "Feelings. Emotions. Like I have all these shelves in my head, labeled for memories and faces, but they're empty. As if everything before this is just on the other side of a white curtain. Including you.

He felt another tremor of emotion as he saw the faces of Chuck and Newt and Teresa in his mind's eye. A

Silencio. El vacío que ella había dejado cuando desapareció seguía en su cabeza.

I've thought about you every second since they took you away.

Sarah was dead.

I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them

The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Our dreams recover what the world forgets.

Brookfield will never forget his lovableness," said Cartwright, in a speech to the School. Which was absurd, because all things are forgotten in the end.

holidays were important to us in ways that might be inconceivable to people whose sole conception of Christmas had been based on frantic excursions to gigantic chain stores. We lived by the seasons now. Our survival depended on it. And we marked the seasons by frequent holiday celebrations, fetes, levees, balls, and solemn days of remembrance.

It should be our acts that remain after us, the whakairo remind us, not our vainglory. Humility is seen as a vital part of a well-adjusted character.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.

I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?

the girl.. her name was Shelly...

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

and after she went, Dalton didn't last long. His death certificate listed heart failure as the cause, but Owen Gray knew it had been loneliness and grief. After

It kept being a shock every time I remembered it, a fresh slap: she was gone. Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.

I'll probably think about it all my life: that candlelit circle, a tableau vivant of the daily, commonplace happiness that was lost when I lost her.