Quotes About Remembrance

The whole point is, we can forget. It's important that we forget some things. Otherwise we'd go round the world carrying a hotload of stuff we just don't need.

No one remembering that old man. Except, I just did, there

I only remember that it all hurt.

it goes away and you almost forget it but emotions stay

I will always have done that; when I die I will have done that; when I'm dead I will remember that I have done that.

which is a memory which happens again and again

remembering better times whereas naming no names some of us would rather not remember something some of us have got enough bloody nightmares already

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Feel how tight my arms are around you?" he said. "This is how tight I'll be holding you. No matter where you go, or where I go, remember how tight I'm holding you." Memory doesn't fade. You don't forget. When you conjure something that happened, float it back up through time and space, it will happen again. When I am eighty years old and looking back on my life, I will be back in the haymow with Tom Miller, that night when he held me so tight.

In all, the crew of the St Laurent picked up and took to safety over eight hundred survivors, an astonishing feat almost without parallel in the lifesaving annals of the sea, almost enough to make one forget, if even only for a moment, the barbed wire and the thousand men who died. Almost, but not quite.

more than 50 per cent of Amstetten's menfolk who had marched off to fight for Hitler did not make it back home.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Caroline knew what this really is... It is a fourteen-day celebration of a time when people like them killed people like me. - Princess Ann

Porque la muerte, lo que suprime no es a los seres cercanos y que son nuestra vida misma. Lo que la muerte se lleva para siempre es su recuerdo, la imagen que se va borrando, diluyendo, hasta perderse, y es entonces cuando empezamos nosotros a morir también.

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

you never really stop missing someone—you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Tout désir est commémoratif. Toute aimée est la réincarnation d'une défunte inassouvie.

L'assassin,, c'est vous, et vous avez tué deux personnes. Aussi longtemps que Léopoldine vivait dans ma mémoire, sa mort était une abstraction. Mais vous avez tué son souvenir par votre intrusion de fouille-merde, et en tuant ce souvenir vous avez tué ce qui restait de moi.

Si por mí sólo ha latido su noble corazón, hoy mudo y yerto, ¿he de mostrarme desagradecido y olvidarla, no más porque ha partido y dejarla, no más porque se ha muerto?

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding.