Quotes about Remembrance
When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love.
— Michael Hyatt
The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
— Cicero
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
— Aristotle
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
— Albert Schweitzer
Paula Bonhoeffer had memorized an impressive repertoire of poems, hymns, and folk songs, which she taught her children, who remembered them into their old age.
— Eric Metaxas
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
— Elie Wiesel
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.
— Graham Greene
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.
— Robert Brault
These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you" (John 14:25—26).
— Robert Morris
It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
— LM Montgomery