Quotes About Remembering Our Loved Ones

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. . . .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

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

Chris McCormick

#6. 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

#7. Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.

Maureen Daly

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

Anna Carey

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

Dean Koontz

#10. 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

#11. You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

Naomi Novik

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

Brittainy C. Cherry

#13. It's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood

Anton Chekhov

#14. 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

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. God would rather have His people living in shameful captivity in a pagan land than living like pagans in the Holy Land and disgracing His name.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. The untouched created the unbroken.

Melyssa Winchester

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.

Stieg Larsson

#28. 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

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

Lisa J. Shultz

#30. 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

#31. I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Doris Lessing

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

Roger Klare