Quotes About Remembrance

I found myself compelled to fight back from my eyes the tears, and quanch my heart trobling to my throat to not weep before him. But Sacco's name will live in the hearts of the people when your name, your laws, institutions and your false god are but a dim rememoring of a cursed past in which man was wolf to the man.

En la reminiscencia, en efecto, el alma tiene el pensamiento de esta sensación, pero no en la continuidad de su duración. Así, la idea de la sensación no es la duración misma de la sensación, es decir, ella no es propiamente su memoria. En cuanto a saber si las ideas mismas están sujetas a alguna corrupción, lo veremos en la Filosofía.

It is easier to die than to remember.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'

When I die, just keep playing the records.

But on this 50th anniversary of the Little Rock crisis, it is important to remember that this evil did happen in America, and that no engineered redemption can make us innocent again. And we might also remember that it is better to be chastened than innocent.

I maintained a diary when I was a child and had all the happenings jotted down.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

I'm really excited to be a part of the 'Fallen Heroes' EP.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

If He pleases to forget anything, then He can forget it. And I think that is what He does with our sins—that is, after He has got them away from us, once we are clean from them altogether. It would be a dreadful thing if He forgot them before that….

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

It was a good hanging, said Syme reminiscently. I think it spoils it when they tie their feet together. I like to see them kicking. And above all, at the end, the tongue sticking right out, and blue a quite bright blue. That's the detail that appeals to me.

The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten

We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll

arrachons, s'il se peut, au néant de l'oubli, le sillon de Germain, le fin laboureur

If you do not cease loving me, you will see me, you will feel me, you will hear me everywhere. My form will be before your eyes because it will remain engraved on your mind; my voice will echo in your ear because it will remain in your heart's memory: my spirit will again reveal itself to your spirit because your soul understands me and knows me completely.