Quotes About Remembrance

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!

Dead men never pick up their trophies.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.