Quotes About Remembrance

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

Write what should not be forgotten.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

But in vain I set out to visit the city: forced to remain motionless and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, Zora has languished, disintegrated, disappeared. The earth has forgotten her.

EVEN WHEN IT STANDS VACANT THE PAST IS NEVER EMPTY.

Zaborav sve le?i, a pesma je najlepši na?in zaborava, jer u pesmi se ?ovek se?a samo onoga što voli.

Haggai preached to a people with whom we might secretly sympathize: they were so preoccupied with paneling their own homes that they forgot that the house of the Lord was in ruins. All of which is to say, distraction comes easily, in many forms, and it happens to the nicest people.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay

An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).

Pay? I've forgotten how!

It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.

Gettysburg Address ("Four score and seven years ago …")

It was over. But I would have their baseball cards to help me remember them forever. And the rest is history.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Everyone knows me from my time at Arsenal. No-one really remembers me at Boro or Villa.

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.