Quotes About Remembrance

IT'S BEEN EIGHTEEN MONTHS SINCE ALYSS'S DEATH

When Jesus said 'THIS do in remembrance of ME,' he was contrasting the New Covenant, and its remembrance sign, with the Old Covenant and its remembrance sign. He was saying, "Instead of keeping the sabbath in remembrance of the old creation and Israel's redemption, THIS do in remembrance of me and the deliverance I have accomplished at Calvary." In other words, remember and think about what the new creation is and how Christ brought it about.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ...

I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

Venice had no memories of her father, a policeman killed in the line of duty before she was born, and it was a source of pain that she'd never truly overcome. For as long as she could remember, she'd always dreamed about what her father might have sounded like and smelled like. The picture on Mama's dresser gave her a face, but she'd never know the voice that went with it.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

history is to society what memory is to the individual.

Because some things should never be forgotten." He smoothed the girl's unruly hair. "Not if we hope to live better lives." *

It was a paradox of life behind walls, that where any day could end in blood, every morning contrived to start exactly the same. A man woke and, for two beats of his heart, didn't know where he was or what he'd become. Those few seconds were magic, a warm flicker before reality walked across his chest, the black dog of remembrance trailing at its feet.

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

TO THE FALLEN Sleep my sons, your duty done For Freedom's light has come. Sleep in the silent depths of the sea Or in your bed of hallowed sod Until you hear at dawn the low, Clear reveille of God.

Hizo envolver el ramo con una cinta de raso negro y adjuntó una tarjeta que rezaba sólo: Todavía pienso en ti. Doctor S. Se había convertido en un hombre de muchas menos palabras, admitió para sí.

No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twistWolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.

I have so much of you in my heart.

It is Remembrance Day. A time to conjure up the mighty fallen. Friends and relatives rotting in the channel and mud of France. But the old man won't remember quite yet. Not till he's had his breakfast and read the paper. Then he will let the memories come back. Relive the good old days.

appriesse n. the feeling of loss that you never had the chance to meet a certain person before they died, which compels you to try to get to know them anyway, gathering snapshots and stories to build out a sketch of who they were, learning them like a character in a novel, which makes them feel all the more alive even though you've already skipped ahead and read the last page.

amentalio n. the sadness of realizing that you're already forgetting sense memories of the departed-already struggling to hear their voice, picture the exact shade of their eyes, or call to mind little gestures you once knew by heart.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. —Michel de Montaigne John Ling. Fallen Angel (Kindle Locations 31-32). Kia Kaha Press.

Is it not far better to abhor sins by the remembrance of others' faults, than by repentance of thine own follies?