Quotes About Remembrance

I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

What if I forget her voice?' Sara said. 'You won't,' I said. 'You sound just like her.

Know this: if we meet again, I may not remember you." He pulled the thick sheaf of mismatched pages from under his shirt, extracted the topmost sheet and pressed it into her hand. "And if I do not, then give me this. It will remind me of the girl who shed a tear for the lost king. Go now. Get to the leygate.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

Olvidamos ciertas cosas, las olvidamos de verdad; nos equivocamos de medio a medio suponiendo que todo se conserva en el santuario de la memoria; algunos acontecimientos, incluso diría que la mayoría, se borran por completo, no queda la menor huella, y es exactamente como si nunca hubieran ocurrido.

I know well that, at this hour, I could as easily forget your name as the food by which I live by; nay, it were easier to forget the food, which only nourishes by body miserably, than your name, which nourishes both body and soul, filling the one and the other with such sweetness that neither weariness nor fear of death is felt by me while memory preserves you to my mind. Think, if the eyes could also enjoy their portion, in what condition I should find myself.

Yes, they have. And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." "Pericles.

I heard Nakhtmin's voice in my mind, that to be forgotten was the greatest gift that history could give.

To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again- Egyptian Proverb

It is often said that Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust. I consider this statement wrong. Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Toda a dor prolongada insulta o seu esquecimento.

You shouldn't be thinking of losing each-other at all. Don't let that loom over your happiness right now. Enjoy that easy silence with him. It is rare what you've got. But, when the time does come... it will be hard every day and it won't get easier. But... eventually, after some time, you'll find little moments, little pieces of life that remind you of him... and you'll hold them tight. It'll be like he's here with you, even though he's gone.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo. Todos

Every year, she cleaned the graves of her siblings; her

It had been eleven years since he'd died; the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

Now that he was gone, Sunja held on to her father's warmth and kind words like polished gems.

There wasn't a day when she didn't think of her father or hear his voice in her head.

It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read.

And now Emily Davis was dead! Or was she, wondered Jane? What was that saying about those who lived in the hearts of others? Something to the effect that they never really died. If that were the case, then Emily Davis would certainly live on.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.