Quotes About Remembrance

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

You remember the footprint All that is forgotten you remember from eternity You remember the footprint which filled with death As the myrmidon approached. You remember the child's trembling lips As they had to learn their farewell to their mother. You remember the mother's hands which scooped out a grave For the child which had starved at her breast. You remember the mindless words That a bride spoke into the air to her dead bridegroom.

after all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Ludzie pr?dzej puszczaj? w niepami?? ?mier? ojca ni? strat? ojcowizny

It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Remember me with joy, for this is how I always thought of you. That is what I want, more than anything. I want you to smile when you think of me. And in your smile, I will live forever

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Si uno va a sentarse sobre la lápida de alguien, al menos debe saber algo sobre ellos, ¿no?

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough

Like Clara's, Dawson's ghost was everywhere.

She wished her younger brother, Drake, were here, and she felt the usual ache when she thought of him.

In my thoughts forever.

I am always with you, Ira.

Honestly, when I left the business, in time, some people might remember you and some might say they knew the name. But, people move on and there are new interests and all kinds of different things go on all the time. So, it surprised me how people have not forgotten.

I want to go to the 9/11 Memorial. I heard that's amazing and crazy to look at, an amazing museum. So I haven't done that. I'd like to do that.

There are too many war museums.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.