Quotes About Remembrance

The Seder nights... tie me with the centuries before me.

Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

Inside was my father's wallet, his reading glasses, his wedding ring. Identity, insight, heart: the only things we leave behind.

Las cosas existen mientras haya quien que las recuerde.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

No matter how long I live, I will always remember the way the light went out of her eyes, like a candle flame caught in an unexpected wind.

My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds." "I'm sorry." He shrugged. "I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

As long as I remembered them, then they were still here.

Every holocaust starts with an ember. You just have to know what to look for.

My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds.

LOSE someone you love, there is a tear in the fabric of the universe. It's the scar you feel for, the flaw you can't stop seeing. It's the tender place that won't bear weight. It's a void.

Well, as long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it, right?" Lacy

long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

A man will only be as long as his life but his name will be for all time.

I'll tell you something about that war, Billy. With great respect to all the men who died. I don't think it was worth the fighting. Too many good men perished. For what? Is the world a better place for their sacrifice? You know what's going on in Spain and Germany. Has anyone really learned the lessons? It was supposed to be the war to end wars. Do you see any sign of that?

And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it's difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.

I've seen all those movies, of course. Schindler's List, The Pianist, Sophie's Choice. And I've watched a few documentaries and read a few books. But you don't really get a sense of it until you're actually there, do you? Have you ever been, Mrs F.?' I said nothing.

It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they call it," I said. "Like amputees get when they can still feel their missing limbs.

Oh, the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fears of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great support from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.

Then said Emmanuel, 'No; for if Mansoul come to be mine, I shall not admit of nor consent that there should be the least scrap, shred, or dust of Diabolus left behind, as tokens of gifts bestowed upon any in Mansoul, thereby to call to remembrance the horrible communion that was betwixt them and him.