Quotes About Remembrance

Life Warriors. They would pay tribute to their loved ones rather than mourn them, by being bringers of light, of positive thinking, the spreaders of joy. Ch. 1, pg. 18, Lavender Blue by Donna Kauffman

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

Funny how something that seemed so insignificant, just an old bowl with faded glazed stripes, could trigger so many memories.

As Dorothy Canfield Fisher says in her excellent little book for parents and teachers, Self-Reliance, "Success or failure in adult life depends largely on the energy, courage and self-reliance with which one attacks the problem of making his dreams come true. Self-confidence in any enterprise comes as a rule from remembrance of past success.

Wondering at the loneliness of the new dead, remembering Kitten and Kitten's need for light and life. She had no sorrow for Kitten dead; she had pity that scalded. She

There had been that young Catholic girl in the bed next to me at the hospital who gave me a medal of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. "I don't believe in these things," I told her, and it was another example of people saying what they do not mean. "If you love someone you like to have something around which reminds you of them," she told me.

Every time I blinked I saw her: the untroubled face, the motionless body, the detail of her tattoo. Every time I breathed I realised that the woman with the Brighton Mermaid tattoo wasn't going to do that ever again.

The worst feeling isn't being lonely, it is being forgotten.

Five thousand! The biggest loss since 9/11.

We try so hard to put our mark on things, we like to tell ourselves that what we do has import or will last. But the truth is, we're all just passing through. So little survives us. And when we're gone, it's simply the memory of others that keeps our time here alive. And when they're gone... That's why - when I go - I'm asking that my dust gets tossed on the water. Because ends up floating away.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

I just hope that you miss me a little when Im gone.

Yankee private Henry Struble was not only listed as a casualty after Antietam but assigned a grave after his canteen was found in the hands of a dead man he had stopped to help. After the war ended, Struble sent flowers every Memorial Day to decorate his own grave, to honor the unknown soldier it sheltered and perhaps to acknowledge that there but for God's grace he might lie.

Richmond's Mrs. William McFarland. "Let us remember that we belong to that sex which was last at the cross, first at the grave…Let us go now, hand in hand, to the graves of our country's sons, and as we go let our energies be aroused and our hearts be thrilled by this thought: It is the least thing we can do for our soldiers.

Thinking of his forebears, it seemed the actual moment of death was not important to record: you died when those who lived forgot your existence.

Rather be alive and be knowned than be dead and forgetten.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory