Quotes About Remembrance

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.

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.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

you, man, will you remember me when i die? will you stare and stain my death and say i saw her dancen among swallows far from the world's obscenities? you, man, will you remember and cry?

I left my scarf behind. You sent it on. I meant to buy and send a Thank You card But I forgot, and soon the year was gone And the year after that. My life was hard

There is no spot on earth that is free from loss. On this street, or in this room, someone lay down or was put down and was no more. Someone held someone else for the last time here. Rivers and lakes and oceans are full of people who vanished beneath the surface and were never seen again. Wherever you are standing, wherever you call home, someone left the earth there. Everyone we love dies and disappears.

your body may lie in a far off land or under a stormy sea .Your soul it rose to be with God to a place we cannot see. YOUR sprit (MACE) roams in this land from sea to glimmering sea. BUT YOUR HEART WILL ALLWAYS BE HERE AT HOME WITH THOSE YOU (MACE) YOU GAVE ALL TO BE FREE. MY DAD' S SHIP WAS HIT 5 TIMES IN WWII HE IS WITH MACE NOW I CANT WAIT TO GET THERE LOVE YA ALL PHIL

War would end if the dead could return.

je sais que les livres sont faits pour unir les hommes par-delà la mort et nous défendre contre l'ennemi le plus implacable de toute vie, l'oubli.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

factory had at its disposal 30,000 Jews, political prisoners

the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When

Maybe, just maybe, those six balls are a scarf and hat that get tucked away for years and long after I'm gone someone pulls them out and says, "Remember how Grammy was with all the wool? Remember how she knit all the time?" fingering the soft wool and pondering who I was and what I did while I was here.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.

We can always HIDE things AWAY.But we could NEVER FORGET them~ Your Lie In April

everything, in fact, recalled him to me, as though he'd left the whole world to me in his will.

People notice only what you tell them to notice," he said. "And then only if you remind them.

If your wife, your brother, or God forbid, your child dies, it leaves a big hole in your life. It's much better not to pretend there's no hole. Not to try to, what do they say nowadays, get over it ... when it's time for the Kaddish. You stand up in front of everybody, and you point to the hole, and you say, 'Look at this. This is what I'm living with, this hole.' Eleven months, every week. It doesn't go away, you don't put it behind you.

She was cremated.

Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send to sweethearts and loved ones, or simply ways of remembering, of grasping a moment in a swift changing and uncertain world.