Quotes about Remembrance

Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever.

The fathers may soar, they may triumph, they may leave, but the children know who they are; they remember, half in glory and half in accusation.

You can't take a life and walk off and leave it. Life is life. Precious. And the dead you kill is yours. They stay with you anyway, in your mind. So it's a better thing, a more better thing to have the bones right there with you wherever you go. That way, it frees up your mind.

Fear dismembers and disfigures our perspective of God, making Him seem a powerless pawn controlled by our circumstances. But when we re-member the Lord and re-count His works, we begin to re-form our vision of His greatness in our hearts.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...

So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or walk about slowly remembering all the details of life which now because a million lightyears away have taken on the aspect (as they must've for Proust in his sealed room) of pleasant movies brought up at will and projected for further study ? And pleasure ? As I imagine God to be doing this very minute, watching his own movie, which is us.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo