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Quotes About Remembrance

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.
~ Unknown
they've all come to the same end. They are dust beneath the soil. All that is left behind lies in the people who remain. And the stories.
~ Unknown
I realize that those who have loved us are never really gone. They live on in all the ones we love and all the ways we love. They are the reason we know how to love at all.
~ Unknown
At the very least, we must tell our stories, mustn't we? Speak the names? You know, there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our
~ Unknown
Find the beautiful things, little brother. Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.
~ Unknown
You know there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.
~ Unknown
Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.
~ Unknown
May your names never go unspoken and your stories forever be told.
~ Unknown
Today I bring you cold chrysanthemums, white as absence, long-stemmed as my grief. I stand before your grave, a few unfallen leaves overhead, the sucking mud beneath.
~ Li-Young Lee
Our love for people doesn't end when they pass away. More often our feelings deepen as we realize how much they mean to us and how dearly we miss them.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
Marcellus cudgeled his memory. What did he know about Arpino? Delicious little melons! Arpino melons! And exactly the right time for them, too.
~ Unknown
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
~ Unknown
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
~ Lord Byron
History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page
~ Lord Byron
They grieved for those who perished with the cutter, and also for the biscuit casks and butter.
~ Lord Byron
For there was soft remembrance, and sweet trust In one fond breast, to which his own would melt, And in its tenderer hour on that his bosom dwelt.
~ Lord Byron
Oh! may my shade behold no sculptured urns, To mark the spot where earth to earth returns! No lengthen'd scroll, no praise-encumber'd stone; My epitaph shall be my name alone:
~ Lord Byron
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
~ Loren Eiseley
E pensou o mesmo naquele momento, porque os sentimentos perturbadores permaneciam ali, sob o bolso do peito do colete, onde ele guardava um toco de lápis que ela havia deixado para trás na noite anterior.
~ Loretta Chase
I suppose no one is truly dead when we go on loving them.
~ Unknown
Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended.
~ Jim Butcher
It's a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest.
~ Jim Butcher
It is the nature of the universe that things remain. Nothing ever disappears completely. The very sound of Creation still echoes throughout the vast darkness: The universe remembers
~ Jim Butcher
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
~ Jim Harrison