Quotes About Remembrance

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

I bequeath my soul to God… My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living. Breathe her in, put your nose in her hair, breathe her in deeply. Say her name. It will always be her name. Not even death can steal it. Same alive as dead, always. Aura Estrada.

Draped across an armchair lay his famous long black coat, empty now, and hollow with missing him.

Pain, the idea that something that is gone forever can nonetheless remain so cruelly alive.

Nothing later equalled that first distant glimpse

É irracional desejar a fama póstuma, pois as pessoas que de facto se recordam de nós também morreram e o nosso nome depressa passa a ser conhecido apenas por académicos especialistas e antiquários. Para além disso, de que serve tentar impressionar a posteridade – são pessoas que nunca vamos conhecer. O que valerá a sua opinião?

Monuments are for the living, not for the dead.

December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy

Man's desire to be remembered is colossal.

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Frederic Morton

When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.

one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Final Solution, "9-11." We might even be able to rattle off the dates of these awful events—but the lesson, we haven't yet absorbed. And until we really learn it, kids will keep getting new dates to memorize for history class.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

The monuments of Man are worthless if no one is left to carry their meaning.

Tammy's fallen tomahawk.

What matters is, I will remember you, Cole. It can be hard to know how you impact people. Somewhere there might be entire kingdoms that will never forget you, where people young and old speak of you with awe and consider your birthday an important holiday.

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.