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Quotes About Remembrance

Auschwitz." Nobody had ever heard that name.
~ Elie Wiesel
Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And
~ Elie Wiesel
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
~ Elie Wiesel
For memory is a blessing: it creates bonds rather than destroys them.
~ Elie Wiesel
For in the end, it is all about memory, its source and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
~ Elie Wiesel
Any one of the fields of ashes in Birkenau carries more weight than all the testimonies about Birkenau.
~ Elie Wiesel, Night
Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I miss you," he says. "I still miss you, sweetheart. Every day is like the first day I lost you.
~ Elizabeth Berg
yearning and grief for lost places.
~ Elizabeth Berg
CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION APRIL 1943 VALENTINE'S DAY, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO
~ Elizabeth Berg
When you love someone, it's never over,' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
the problem with stage actresses is that once they are gone, they are forgotten. If you never saw her perform onstage, then you would not be able to understand her power and appeal.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There were times when she looked up from her labors to ask her mother a question - looking over to the chair where Beatrix had always sat - and was startled by the nothingness to be found there. It was like looking at a spot on a wall where a clock had hung for years, and seeing only an empty space. She could not train herself not to look; the emptiness surprised her every time.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You'll be haunting my tomorrows evermore.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Peters
~ Nil nisi bonum
For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me. There
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do we indeed desire the deadShould still be near us at our side?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
And the best and the worst of this is, That neither is most to blame, If you've forgotten my kisses, And I've forgotten your name.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
the sins of slavery are given short shrift.
~ Ali Rattansi