Quotes About Remembrance

Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous—as if cursed—while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold? Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown.

There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth; it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.

He hands the page to his wife and looks across the room to Colleen's picture, listening to her absence, breathing deeply the air she can't share.

Consider all the mortals that populated the earth before us, generation upon generation, extending back through countless centuries. All are dead, all turned to dust—so many, one wonders how the earth has room to hold them all.

Une conscience tranquille est généralement le signe d'une mauvaise mémoire

The best memorial is a boxful of happy memories inside your head

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

The people should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable and striking.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Just to be, overall, I want to be one of the greats: overall, someone that leaves a good mark, someone everybody always remember.

I hate tears, it makes it easy to forget someone.

Even in death she was more beautiful to him than she ever was alive.

Every single day I'll keep you with me, no matter how far from me you are.

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.

I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

The memories of you are dead in my mind, but alive in my heart.

It is true that in life, precious moments my simply fly, But deep in our hearts and souls, they will never die.