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Quotes About Remembrance

How many other are there? I thought. People, things, seen and then forgotten, leaving nothing behind them, not even the knowledge that they're missing.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.
~ Kim Harrison, A Perfect Blood
love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.
~ Susan Abulhawa
If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd
~ William Shakespeare
The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam
~ Anne Michaels
How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!
~ Francis Alexander Durivage
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
~ John Lennon
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
~ Stanislas de Boufflers
How vast a memory has Love!
~ Alexander Pope
Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
~ Alice Sebold
I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
~ Mackenzie Phillips
In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.
~ Izumi Shikibu
It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here
~ J. K. Rowling
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.
~ Kathi Appelt
Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.
~ e. e. cummings
Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us.
~ Lucinda Riley
The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.
~ M.J. Rose
I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
~ Andy Rooney
...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.
~ Ari Berk
more never came home from the other trenches,' said
~ Maureen Reynolds
Seeing him with Mom in his eyes and no sadness there at all. Maybe that was why everybody liked nostalgia. It was the past with only the good parts left in.
~ Max Allan Collins
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they exerted upon the landscape. This was what survived them. A hundred billion lives had passed without leaving a mark since the Egyptians had raised their pyramids, changing the world not figuratively but literally.
~ Max Barry
We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead.
~ Max Brooks
We can't just mourn the deaths, we also have to celebrate the lives. We need Anne Frank's diary, but we also need her smile on the cover.
~ Max Brooks