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Quotes About Remembrance

When you lose someone, they take a bigger place in your heart, not a smaller one. Every day it grows, because you don't stop loving them. You wish you could talk to them. You need their advice. But life doesn't always give us what we need, and it's difficult.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The dead" we say   as if speaking of "the people" who gave up on making history simply to get through Something dense and null   groan without echo   underground and owl-voiced I cry Who are these dead people these lovers who if ever did listen no longer answer : We :
~ Adrienne Rich
There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.
~ Luke Scott
We can't let the past be forgotten.
~ George Takei
I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.
~ Amyra Dastur
I met Paul Brown, and I will never forget it.
~ John Dorsey
Vinnie Paul was a very close friend of mine - he's gone.
~ Ivan Moody
The attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the darkest moments in our nation's history, and we will forever remember the thousands of service members and civilians whose lives were tragically taken on that horrible day.
~ Ned Lamont
They are going to be playing Shaggy and Scooby-Doo for eons and eons, and they're going to forget Casey Kasem - unless they happen to step on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I'll be one of those guys people say, 'Who's that?' about. And someone else will say, 'He's just some guy who used to be on the radio.'
~ Casey Kasem
Memory dictates and history writes
~ Pierre Nora
Memory is constantly on our lips because it no longer exists.
~ Pierre Nora
Words have a longer life than deeds.
~ Pindar
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
~ Pope John Paul II
Cuando la vida se pierde, solo queda, para vosotros y vuestros hijos, lo que de vosotros se dice.
~ Poul Anderson
Ibu bapak tani—ibu bapak tanah air—akan meratapi putera-puterinya yang terkubur dalam udara terbuka di atas rumput hijau, di bawah naungan langit biru di mana awan putih berarak dan angin bersuling di rumpun bambu. Kemudian tinggallah tulang belulang putih yang bercerita pada musafir lalu, " Di sini pernah terjadi pertempuran. Dan aku mati di sini.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
~ Primo Levi
If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they're gone. They'll come back.
~ Prince
Painful recollections are always of the dead. And the dead decompose rapidly, and there remains even in the proximity of their tombs nothing but the beauty of nature, silence, the purity of air.
~ Proust, Marcel
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
~ Publilius Syrus
Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.
~ Publius Ovidius Naso
I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
~ Quintus Ennius
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
~ Quintus Ennius
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.
~ R.J. Palacio