Memorial Quote by David Levithan

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.”

— Victor Hugo

“I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a…

— Margaret Atwood

“In your carefree heart; I want to be your Memorial for a life time.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there…

— Margaret Atwood

“If I have done anything noble, that is a sufficient memorial; if I have not, all the statues in the world will not preserve…

— Anonymous

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”

— John Green

“We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.”

— Mandy Hale

“Come here into the candlelight. I’m not afraid to look at the dead. For when the dead come they have as much right to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Things dead and buried are best left that way. They don't look none too pretty when they come up.”

— Krysten Ritter

“I blink at the skyline visible through the window, knowing the only thing waiting out there for me is a funeral home.”

— Amy Matayo

“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”

— Julia Scheeres

“Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the dead seemed…

— Colm Tóibín