Quotes About Remembrance

They had forgotten – as people inevitably forget

A person lives for years, touches so many people, and then at the end winds up just a small picture and a few paragraphs in the paper, the paper gets thrown away, and it's all over.

He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.

Al final, siempre gana el olvido.

Pronto se dirá de vosotros lo que suele ahora decirse de nosotros, murieron!!

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

Vivemos só de recordar. Na nossa alma entristecida Há um som de reza a invocar A morta vida;

The everyday external things of the one who died

I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say.

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.