Quotes About Remembrance

We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

She was the People's Princess, and that's how she will stay… in our hearts and in our memories forever.

We did not know that she had passed," Soth said. She held a palm up to the air. "Hopefully, her spirit has found serenity." The council did the same. "Spirit find Serenity," they said in unison.

Andersonville lay on American soil and saw the death of 13,000 Americans in American custody.

Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of "nostalgia.

Evil, above all evil on the scale practiced by Nazi Germany, can never be satisfactorily remembered. The very enormity of the crime renders all memorialisation incomplete. Its inherent implausibility—the sheer difficulty of conceiving of it in calm retrospect—opens the door to diminution and even denial. Impossible to remember as it truly was, it is inherently vulnerable to being remembered as it wasn't.

and what is remembered is so seldom true

It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

People carry their loved ones with them. They are forever present.

People carry their loved ones with them. They are forever present, and life is full of easily grasped opportunities to show them one's affection. It costs so little and achieves so much.

We wept to be reminded of such color.

But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail

La muerte era eso: no ver más a alguien. O no haber visto nunca a alguien.

And Jaina hears him whispering to her in her dreams, telling her that no one you love ever really has to die--if you don't want them to...All you have to do is hold a place for them in your heart.

Cancellare il passato è un'offesa alla memoria di chi ha sofferto e all'immensa moltitudine che non è sopravvissuta.

But the face I would always remember best was the one that never made the pictures. The one behind the camera.

no one bears witness for the witness

Only two bodies were found and identified; the rest vanished, "and they are crying out for justice.

One encounter in particular stayed in my memory

The Days of the Dead was just such a fiesta. It was a solemn ritual, it was a vigil in graveyards, it was a masquerade, it was a binge, it was an occasion for dressing up and looking fabulous, it included political protest, and it was a party.

The root of oppression is loss of memory

I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater.

It would stay with him always as everything you ever did stayed with you, every horse you ever saddled, every morning he awoke with Maria Luisa beside him, and every slap of the paten on fresh paper, every time he had thrown open the shutters in the Betancort house, and his captain dying under his hands, always there like a tangle of telegraph wires in the brain where no dispatch was ever lost, what an odd thing, an odd thing.