Remembrance Quotes

"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won."

"If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields."

John McCrae

"At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

Laurence Binyon

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

Cicero

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

Christina Rossetti

"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced."

Washington Irving

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

Elie Wiesel

"How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts."

Dorothy Ferguson

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."

Terry Pratchett

"Death does not exist, daughter. People only die when we forget them."

Isabel Allende

"A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks beside you on crisp autumn days."

Mary Carolyn Davies

"Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land."

Christina Rossetti

"Unable are the Loved to die, For Love is Immortality."

Emily Dickinson

"Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep."

Mary Elizabeth Frye

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men."

Minot J. Savage

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest!"

William Collins

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."

Laurence Binyon

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row."

John McCrae

“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

"That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."