Quotes About Remembrance

They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter, and all is forgotten.

A SON My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I knew What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few.

Photographs of them alive and smiling would have made me cry and fall down and beat the earth with my fists; their actual dead faces only sealed me off from myself.

it is we who live for the dead and not the dead who live for us.

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole.

I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best forgotten.

This is remembered by everyone even today because, in our thinking, the past takes up more space than the future.

No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no longer able to seize it? Most people have a limit in this respect: what lies too near them in time they cannot remember, nor what lies too remote. I know no limit. What was experienced yesterday, I push back a thousand years in time, and remember as if it were yesterday. ?Johannes de Silentio, from_Either/Or_

There is a loss that is eternally irreparable; thus eternity—even more frightful—far from wiping out the recollection of what is lost, is an eternal recollection of what is lost!

Raskain rangaistus on nimenomaan muisto.

Grief is the tribute we pay the dead," she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. "But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they're part of our story, and we of theirs.

Kinder?" Ash snorted. "Easier, you mean. Wrap it all in King and Country and forget what war really is. It betrays them, it betrays everyone who died.

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness.

History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness.

Everybody forgets some small things, all the time!" But if small things go, will large things be close behind?

History is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.