Top 25 Quotes About Remembering The Dead
#1. It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
Dean Koontz
#2. The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
Stephen Gardiner
#3. According to both scientific and anecdotal research, it is clear that homework should be the exception, not the rule. Even the most inventive or meaningful assignments still infringe on the time that belongs to families.
Vicki Abeles
#4. To forget would mean the things we never knew
had never waited to be known, never waited
to be forgotten, had never been; waiting
beneath the long dead stars
in time. . .
John Daniel Thieme
#5. It is a misconception that the innocent sleep well. The worse a man is, the more profound his slumber; for if he had a conscience, he would not be a villain. When
Elizabeth Peters
#6. This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that.
John Scalzi
#7. What is dead may never die," Theon said remembering,
"What is dead may never die," his uncle echoed, "but rises again, harder and stronger. Stand.
George R R Martin
#8. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. With a gun against my belly I ... I always smile.
Owen Wister
#10. Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
Jose Bergamin
#12. A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.
Martha Graham
#13. Grief should have been all-consuming. I hated myself that it wasn't. But sometimes I forgot. Jesus, how could I fucking forget? Sometimes I went for minutes without remembering my dad was dead, but that whole time it was regrouping so it could hit me all over again.
Lisa Henry
#15. We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#16. I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend.
Jennifer Niven
#17. James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.
Simon Newcomb
#18. And the fierce wind is an echo of angry childhood and of a very scared boy looking out the window - remembering my dead dog outside by the wounded house as the gray Texas dust gradually covered her up - and thinking: It isnt fair! Why cant dogs go to Heaven?
John Rechy
#19. The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. For you will be dead much longer than you will be alive. And you will have all that time to remember everything that was your life, even if no one else does. So you had better find something worth remembering and just leave it at that.
Matthew Good
#21. I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.
Eric Bana
#22. Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead.
Susan Sontag
#23. The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.
L.M. Montgomery
#24. I just remember, all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: "Wanted, Dead or Alive." All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what we want.
George W. Bush
#25. Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?
Laurie Halse Anderson
