Quotes About Remembrance

It's easy to get lost in the history here—the beautiful art, the ability to walk around a first century city—and forget that thousands of people died here…in hours," Zoe said, glancing into the distance where Mt. Vesuvius was clearly visible, dark against the blue sky.

Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave.

It will not change now After so many years; Life has not broken it With parting or tears; Death will not alter it, It will live on In all my songs for you When I am gone.

It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They're ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Hiroshima, Mon Amour