Quotes About Remembrance

The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

When a people does not honour its past, it lives in a present of little substance and faces a future clouded in doubt.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

To be forgotten was a defeat. To be doomed to remember someone was a defeat, too.

This piercing cold I feel:my dead wife's comb, in our bedroomunder my heel…

The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice .

M]y terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past continue to multiply. ... So that those who need can find that this person did live, those events really took place, this interpretation is not the only one.

Oamenii din "?inutul Rodiei" sunt foarte înÈ›elepÈ›i; È™tiu c? exist? doar dou? roluri pentru fiinÈ›ele din aceast? lume: cei care È›in minte È™i cei care sunt È›inuÈ›i minte.

people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.

To?i iubim. To?i purt?m în inimile noastre florile iubirii ?i, mai pe urm?, dup? ce iubirile au murit, în acelea?i inimi purt?m cenu?a iubirilor... Cenu?a rece a iubirilor moarte...

S? nu ui?i, Darie. Nimic s? nu ui?i. S? spui copiilor t?i. ?i copiilor pe care-i vor avea copiii t?i s? le spui... Auzi, Darie? S? nu ui?i... S? nu ui?i, Darie...

The dead are too much with us.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

Things you say in a matter of seconds are never forgotten in a lifetime."—IKE REIGHARD

When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.

Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies. -- The Eichmann Trial, page 87

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

Murder: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as "the unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially with malice aforethought." The mother of a murdered child has a different definition: "The blackest hell accompanied by a pain so intense that even breathing becomes an unendurable labor." I know; I am the mother of a murdered child.

I'll just be a memory," he says. "There are so many people who were so real to me in their lives, and now they're just memories.

Their musical names remained forever fixed on the American land, but their bones were forgotten in a thousand burned villages or lost in forests fast disappearing before the axes of twenty million invaders.

I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. —STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

Memories are nothing but ghosts in the corners of our minds.