Quotes About Remembrance

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.

A wide valley of the dead spread out below me, hundreds of them gently tucked into the ground in neat rows, their whispers frozen into the stones above them: I am here. I was here. Remember me. Remember.

The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone

There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me?

I feel sad that he's just a voice now.

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

Aiden was gone. Like Caleb, but in a different way. I'd lost both of them.

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

Wie bei den Leichen, die man in den Krematorien von Auschwitz und Treblinka verbrannt hat, benötigt man auch hierfür keinen zusätzlichen Brennstoff; ständig schwelende Wut entzündet sich immer wieder neu an sich selbst.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.