Quotes About Remembering Loved Ones

#1. My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#2. How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

Philip Roth

#3. When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Katherine Paterson

#4. I'm tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I'm tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I'm tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering ...

A.B. Shepherd

#5. . . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars

John Daniel Thieme

#6. In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#7. Anytime we try to remember anyone we've loved, what we're really remembering is ourselves.

Chris McCormick

#8. In the months before the repatriation her heart had hardened around her sister's absence, letting her love Natasha in memory as she could never love her in reality.

Anthony Marra

#9. Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful "I miss you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. He especially loved people - is so happy, especially remembering Eloise.

Anna Carey

#11. I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

Dario Argento

#12. It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

Dean Koontz

#13. After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.

Steve Goodier

#14. the hardest part of existing without your loved ones was remembering how to breathe. He

Brittainy C. Cherry

#15. This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.

Michael Rosen

#16. The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

Marissa Mayer

#18. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

#19. Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.

Thomas Attig

#20. We who are left, how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

#21. Ingredients for a terrific Christmas: Christ. Love for one another. Forgiveness. Generosity. Time. Music. Children's laughter. Reminising with loved ones. Remembering those who are alone. The making of new memories.

Toni Sorenson

#22. I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

Hilary Liftin

#23. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.

Jean Rhys

#24. And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#25. Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

Ernest Borgnine

#26. Sometimes the hardest part of existing without your loved ones was remembering how to breathe.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#27. Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.

Michael Paterniti

#28. It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

Petter Stordalen

#29. When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#30. We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Emanuel Ax

#31. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.

Soheir Khashoggi

#32. My dad's life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline.

Lisa J. Shultz

#33. On those we love:
"Every year that passed, it seemed a little more of her had slipped away; and I began to fear that one day I would come to foget her altogether. But the truth is: No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.

Amor Towles

#34. Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send to sweethearts and loved ones, or simply ways of remembering, of grasping a moment in a swift changing and uncertain world.

Michael Crichton

#35. If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."
Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.

Kristin Cashore

#36. Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes.

Alex Parks

#37. Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.

Dalai Lama

#38. We all have bits that we don't like, but you don't have to be a size 10 to look wonderful.

Twiggy

#39. You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

Nikki Sixx