259 Quotes About Remembrance

And it’s okay to be sad, but you can’t love someone only with tears. There’s got to be laughter too.

Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring: Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers After such years of change and suffering!

We can’t delete our memories, but we can choose what we remember

Meri yaad ko bhi teri yaad aati hai

In the absence of memory, a person becomes like an animal. They know not where to go, how to act or who to be. They become lost. Like wandering sheep, hungry for truth. They become lost. Like a young child, ripe and ready for conditioning.

To bring the dead to lifeIs no great magic.Few are wholly dead; Blow on a dead man's embersAnd a live flame will start. - To Bring the Dead to Life

The route had been renamed after the war, Sergeant Booth had told them in the taxi. Now it was known as the Road of Remembrance. To Billy, recalling Alf Dawkins with his crutches and his nervous tick, begging for half-crowns, it seemed more a case of how quickly people forgot.

They have tried to make me forget everything, Walter; but I remember Marian, and I remember you'--in that moment, I, who had long since given her my love, gave her my life, and thanked God that it was mine to bestow on her.

On these forgotten islands they rest, and the sand packs tight around them while their friends have gone on to other islands, to die on other beaches. The little invasions, the crumbs of global warfare, eventually to be remembered only by mapmakers and mothers.