Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old memoriam quotes, memoriam sayings, and memoriam proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The memorial itself has been an afterthought. It's astounding to me that the only thing they have up there after four years are a couple of posters.Bill Doyle
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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.Henry Waxman
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It's a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they're dead.BatWhaleDragon
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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.George W. Bush
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The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from youRodman Philbrick
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Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.Pete Hegseth
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The grief they have experienced has made them more empathetic to the grief of others.Bill Doyle
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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?Terry Pratchett
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in; their true beauty is revealed only if their light is from within.Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Because one dead leaves every material back, even the body, but what is taken is the soul with memories.Riku H. Petro
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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.Haruki Murakami
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Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once a year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.Jennifer Granholm
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.Anonymous
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Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it right then, and God put you there to deliver.Carrie Hamilton
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The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.Decimius Magnus Ausonius
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When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.Anonymous
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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the thing you are, the things you never want to lose.Kevin Arnold
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.Ugo Betti
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Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.Richard B. Sheridan
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A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.Sandra Bernhard
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Those whom we have loved never really leave us. They live on forever in our hearts, and cast their radiant light onto our every shadow.Sylvana Rossetti
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Memories are like a box full of chocolates, you can't have them all at once.Sarvani Rajdeep
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The grave is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.Clyde Campbell
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No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories.Chris Sorensen
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.Antonio Porchia
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'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than to never have loved at all.Tennyson
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He smiled into the face of Fate and mocked it as he passed. / No, death to him was not defeat, but victory sublime / The grave promoted him to be a hero for all time.Gen. Patton
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The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills. St. Ambrose
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Death has nothing terrible which life has not made so. A faithful Christian life in this world is the best preparation for the next.Tyron Edwards