Quotes About Remembrance

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that we can do now for her and for ourselves before our silence turns us from spectators into passive accomplices. We can remember her.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, 2001, but they're too young for that. Maybe when they're twenty. Maybe by then, even though it's been only a short subway ride away for years now, I'll have the nerve to see the 9-11 memorial for the first time.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

Now he belongs to the ages.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.