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Quotes About Remembrance

And I know you probably wish you never met me, and I just wish you never forget me.
~ Lil Wayne
No matter how much time goes by, missing someone never gets any better. You just learn to work around it.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Why remember? Because remembering honors. Remembering heals. Remembering forgives. Remembering creates appreciation and gratitude — two of the most wondrous salves for your sorrows.
~ Linda Anderson
For Jean Dennis and in memory of John Dennis Prologue
~ Unknown
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
~ Linda Lavin
All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived.
~ Unknown
When bones and flesh have finished their business together, we lay them carefully, in positions they're willing to keep, and cover them over. Their eyes and ours won't meet anymore. We hope.
~ Unknown
Even dead, we bony creatures do our best to leave a mark-- if not a mask of beaten gold or a casket engraved with feathers, perhaps a richer concentration of fungus, a patch where grass is younger and thicker, a sunken place in a field.
~ Unknown
Giving is my way of being forgotten and remembered at the same time.
~ Unknown
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
~ Unknown
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
~ Unknown
Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.
~ Lionel Shriver
Yes. I agree. We are done here. I am sorry to have upset you, Miss Jones. But what we mustn't forget, whatever the truth of this situation, a young woman was killed in that house. Violently killed. This must remain the focus and I will keep making people cry for as long as it takes to find out who did it and why.
~ Lisa Jewell
I've lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Remembrance Day is a timely reminder that, in what may be some of Britain's darkest hours, it is the bravery of millions of ordinary people from all races, religions, and backgrounds that have kept our country's flame burning and stood up for the values we hold dear.
~ Amber Rudd
I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn't famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.
~ J.I.D
People tend to forget you. I didn't want people to go, 'That is that guy that used to play in Van Halen. What's his name again?'
~ Michael Anthony
Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
~ Scott Speedman
Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.
~ Monica Hesse
In terms of the collective memory of the American people, the Korean War is not just forgotten. It was not remembered in the first place…." —HISTORIAN ALLAN MILLETT
~ Jeff Shaara
The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
~ Jeffrey Archer
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
the melancholic remainder of our lives (a place the Lisbon girls, wisely, it began to seem, never cared to see)
~ Jeffrey Eugenides