Remembering Death Anniversary Quotes

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten. ~ John Green

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. ~ Blaise Pascal

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self. ~ David Frost

The anniversary date of a loved one's death is particularly significant. You will have done something you thought was impossible a few months earlier. You will have survived an entire year without someone who was as important to you as life itself. ~ Bob Diets

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character ... Would you slow down? Or speed up? ~ Chuck Palahniuk

God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one. ~ William Shakespeare

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Every wedding anniversary, we behave like mountaineers,/and pretend to have conquered distance. ~ Sumana Roy

I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more. ~ Richard Darman

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird. ~ Alvin Lee

Happy Valentine's day sir! Next year, happy anniversary na yan ha. ~ Toni Gonzaga

My story will be over soon. But it's not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon ~ Hiro Arikawa

It has taken me four years to figure this out.
If we live long enough, we all will experience this.
Don't ever predetermine how you think that you should feel on an anniversary of a tragic event in your life, such as a death of a loved one, or on a holiday after such an event.
Each year starts out with 365 days, and I will be damned if I am giving up even one of them to misery. ~ JohnA Passaro

ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF D-Day, I was broadcasting from the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, one of the bloodiest battlefields in American history. The cemetery is at once haunting and beautiful, with 9,386 white marble headstones in long, even lines across the manicured fields of dark green, each headstone marking the death of a brave young American. The anniversary was a somber and celebratory ~ Tom Brokaw

Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33] ~ Sylvia Boorstein

Congratulations to Bill and Hillary Clinton: this weekend, 33rd wedding anniversary. How about that? And you thought the Iraqi war was a never-ending conflict. ~ David Letterman

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb. ~ Sabine Baring-Gould

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

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ~ Honore De Balzac

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary. ~ Uta Hagen

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006. ~ Solomon Ortiz

Then come at once and pause for breath
In chasing wealth. Remembering death
And death's dark fires, mix, while you may,
Method and madness, work and play.
Folly is sweet, well-timed. ~ Horace

However, you forgot our anniversary date , but it does not matter because I know that you may have forgotten the date but you haven't forgotten my value in your life. ~ Shattered Girl

Death by drowning, death by snakebite ... death by memory loss, death by claymore ... death by paper cuts, death by whoreknife, death by poker game ... death by authority, death by isolation, death by genocide, death by Kennedy ... death by signature, death by silence ... death by performance ~ Colum McCann

May every memory that you share
Of dreams you've seen come true,
Help make this special anniversary day
A happy one, for the two of you ~ John Walter Bratton

An anniversary is where you look back at having either fulfilled Cinderella or Lord of the Flies. ~ Fernando A. Torres

Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached. ~ Orhan Pamuk

We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long as we here, we can get on living by never forgetting. Never forgetting and always remembering. ~ Andrew Galasetti

Better never to have met you in my dream, than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. ~ Otomo No Yakamochi

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering
remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened. ~ Desmond Tutu

Sometimes, remembering hurts too much. ~ Jess Rothenberg

I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken. ~ Paul Lisicky

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. ~ Todd Tiahrt

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years ... it's unbelievable. ~ Eydie Gorme

He no longer saw distance in terms of miles. He measured it with his remembering ~ Rachel Joyce

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing. ~ Anita Diamant

Somewhere, she is a cell remembering itself
suddenly, late at night. ~ Franny Choi

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course. ~ Billie Letts

. . .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

Are you ok? they'll say.
Tomorrow is one-year anniversary
Of my dad's death, and since he's still
Dead, I am not okay. ~ Lola St. Vil

Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words. ~ Clare Vanderpool

This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

I am left with pieces of remembering though I loved him whole. ~ Ellen Oh

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour. ~ Trey Anastasio

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan. ~ Mac Thornberry

Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren't what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it's the here and now. It's those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually fares in the long run ~ Ashleigh Slater

Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave. ~ Sara Sheridan

You can plant a tree to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion or a business success. Tree hugging is the easiest yoga art to connect you with nature. ~ Amit Ray

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering
not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right? ~ Melissa Senate

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence. ~ Felix Adler

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

Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured. ~ Barbara Pym

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering - remembering and not using your right to hit back ~ Archbishop Desmont Tutu

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled. ~ Robert Ludlum

Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life. ~ Rabih Alameddine

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life. ~ Pope John Paul II

A few women had cried, remembering the way Henry smiled or how he would join them in singing or thinking that the death ofanyone, good or bad, master or not, cut down one more tree in the life forest that shielded them from their own death; but most said or did nothing. ~ Edward P. Jones

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. ~ Sam Kinison

And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing. ~ Emma Donoghue

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling. ~ Gertrude Stein

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

There's a part of grief that's unexpected. After the days when you think you'll never be able to get out of bed again and after walking about feeling like your insides are hollow and your skin is made of paper, you start remembering. You remember not the death and seeing the one you love in a hospital bed with tubes. You remember what he was like before all of that, when he was well and you were whole. It's that remembering that catches up with you and then you know the person you lost isn't lost after all, but has become part of you and you're the better for it. ~ Shelly King

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles. ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

The road is long and the end is death, he thought, remembering all the times his mother had said that. If we're lucky. ~ Pamela Freeman

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

That was what murder was-as easy as that!
But afterwards you went on remembering ... ~ Agatha Christie

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope. ~ Robert Kirkman

Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it. ~ Bill Crawford

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ~ Henry Lawson

The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
forget eternity and the fear of death. ~ Gertrude Stein

One couldn't be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster. ~ Karen Fowler

I almost forgot. It's our anniversary."
"What?" I asked, bolting upright. "We've been married a year already?"
"Not that anniversary."
"Oh, whew. So, on this day however many years ago we … kissed for the first time?"
"Nope," he said with a smirk, opening the bottle with a loud pop.
"We … celebrated the first spine you'd severed in my defense? ~ Darynda Jones

If people are upset because you've forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn't forget - you just weren't remembering."
- Winnie the Pooh ~ Walt Disney Company

Forgetting isn't the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we've remembered can we forget. ~ Emma Hart

As long as you're remembering baby Jesus, does it matter when you're remembering him. That's what I'm saying about Christmas, I might not be in the mood for it December 25th. ~ Karl Pilkington

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary. ~ Mariella Frostrup

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country. ~ Leonard Boswell

He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.
He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again. ~ James Dashner

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness. ~ Orhan Pamuk

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ... ' " ~ Eddie Izzard

He is remembering," I say.
"Remembering what?"
"It's a word I use for praying. Sometimes it's like waiting for music to come out of the silence. ~ Francisco X Stork

Colors flash like promises and black flickers like static, like memories, and everything is falling, falling, remembering, falling, remembering, the two words synonymous. ~ Emily X.R. Pan

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. ~ Joshua Foer

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside. ~ Conan O'Brien

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today. ~ Michael McCaul

How to resist nothingness? What power
Preserves what once was, if memory does not last?
For I remember little. I remember so very little. ~ Czesław Miłosz

Every Good Friday, this anchored but ever-changing anniversary of my accident, I go to the little creek that saved my life and light one more candle. I offer thanks for two facts: that I am one year older, and that I am one year closer to death. ~ Andrew Davidson

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. ~ Graham Nash

When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever. ~ Jack Kornfield

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Almost everything
all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure
these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. ~ Steve Jobs

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

I keep remembering - I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me. ~ Henri Barbusse

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. ~ Samuel Butler

It's an incredible honor to be recognized by St. Jude, especially on a special year like its 50th anniversary. I feel passionate about my music, but even more passionate about children and giving them the opportunity to live a healthy and happy life. ~ Juan Luis Guerra

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness. ~ Eduardo Galeano

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. ~ Joanna Lumley

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

Death is never an ending, death is a change;
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing. ~ Conrad Aiken