Quotes about Remembrance

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

When Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia.

Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth not consider, that they themselves by whom he is remembered, shall soon after every one of them be dead; and they likewise that succeed those; until at last all memory, which hitherto by the succession of men admiring and soon after dying hath had its course, be quite extinct.

How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them;