Quotes About Remembrance

I collected the papers, wrapped them back in the rubber band, and felt a small grief, like a person who discovers, upon returning from a trip, that something has been left behind and there is no way now to retrieve it.

Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier.

Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

Her name and memory, after her death, flitted from mouth to mouth like swallows in summer, and in the winter they were gone.

A well-told story, true or not, reminds you that, yes, the world is an exotic and magical place, and yes, it can be yours for a price. Enchantment always has a price--and sometimes the cost is love.

And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die.

I remember you, the mond said. And you, spawn of Satan. He glowered at Thorgil. Do you recognize him? asked Jack. Thorgil shrugged. We pillage so many monasteries.

But I never forgot Florence. And now, my wife has passed away, and I wondered if it was possible that Florence still remembered me as I remember her.

She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.

They learned the wrong things. But if we stay, if we fight, we will remember the wrong things. And then we would become… We decided that we would rather not remember.

Find for your pencils A way to mark your memory

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

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Marina me dijo una vez que sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió

Tell our stories to the world, and never forget that we exist so long as someone remembers us.

He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words.

And never forget that we exist so long as someone remembers us

A él le hubiere gustado saber que alguien le quería mantener vivo, que le recordaba. El solía decir que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.

Nous restons vivants tant que quelqu'un se souvient de nous