Quotes About Remembrance

It proceeds from the idea that all wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Any

Nations, without exception, disposed of body parts all the time. How could we bear ourselves otherwise if not for the mass graves of our forgetting?

All anyone ever wants is to be recognized and remembered.

Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.

For me, the person whose thoughts are still spoken is never dead.

Question to you – who will remember you after you are dead?

To love is to remember. If you are forgotten, you are dead.

O never think the dead are dead, So long as there are men alive, The dead will live, the dead will live." That's how I feel it. Nothing sadder than that.

But…" said the lion "you had told us that elephants never jump…"."I know…" said the elephant shyly "But I forgot".

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

After a certain age, we do not move on from the dead, we remain in their time, in their company.

The photos I took in Afghanistan are lying in front of me. I peer into the faces of those who were with me there and who are so far away from me now, into the faces of those who were dying right next to me and those who were hiding behind my back. I can make these photos larger or smaller, darker or lighter. But what I can't do is bring back those who are gone forever.

On one of his comrades depicted in the book:] "Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.

You will forget me soon. Oh dear one, hate me rather than forget.

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, I walk in a battle fought over again

They shall be remembered forever, They shall be alive forever, They shall be speaking forever, The people shall hear them forever.

And none will hear the postman's knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

In the cities the birds are forgotten among other things but then one could say that the cities are made of absences of what disappeared so they could be there

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.