259 Quotes About Remembrance

I will be waiting for you at the end of every blind alley, under the lonely streetlamps of a city that will no longer be ours.When the wind grows colder and the huge piles of settled leaves sit there for a week or two, unshielded from the curious gaze of passersby, I will be waiting for you.I will be waiting for what could have been and for what will never be;For the letters that never arrived, the letters that were never sent, and the letters that will never be written.

Remembrance is so physical!

Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am aiming at…

Someone mentioned your name today,took me down memory lane,to a time very much younger, a time more pure, more sane.

Our masters say that real arts never die. Real arts are about remembrance.

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

From the poem: The First Time Percy Came BackYes, it’s all different,” he said.“You’re going to be very surprised.”But I wasn’t thinking of that. I onlywanted to hold him. “Listen,” he said,“I miss that too.And now you’ll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won’t be false, and they won’t be true,but they’ll be real.”And then, as he used to, he said, “Let’s go!”And we walked down the beach together.

I cannot engage in the remembrance of the 9-11 attacks because I am aware of the far greater number of horrific deaths of innocent civilians that the USA unleashed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered and unseen. She deserved so much more.