Quotes About Remembrance

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us.

Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

Now he [Lincoln] belongs to the ages.

Every day in the world is someone's Birthday and someone's Deathday.

Because If you ever think of me in the future I want you to remember me smiling

One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy

When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!

God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time!

But there are still times that I talk to the sky, and by the sky i mean Jim. Try to explain the life i have now to the same color blue that used to flash in his eyes.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

No life should pass unnoticed.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory.

Ölülerin, televizyon, radyo, mikser gibi bozulmuÅŸ nesneler gibi olduklar?n? ve en iyisinin onlar?n iÅŸler halini hat?rlamak olduÄŸunu, kabul edilebilir tek mezarl???n an?lar olduÄŸunu anlatt???n? aktard?m.

Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo sólo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga.

Nunca hemos llorado tanto como en esos días, sí, nosotras las mujeres. Como si quisiéramos lavar a fuerza de lágrimas todas las imágenes, todos los muros, todas las aristas, todas las bancas de piedra manchadas de sangre de Tlatelolco, todas las huellas de los cuerpos desangrándose en los rincones... Pero es mentira que las imágenes se lavan a fuerza de lágrimas. Allí siguen en la memoria. • Perla Vérez de Aguilera, madre de familia

but just as you become impregnated with someone, even after that someone is gone, that is how Lilus remained

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.