eternal flames
Never-extinguishing fires
Eternal flames are fires maintained continuously as memorials or symbols of enduring remembrance.
They honor the dead, commemorate significant events, or represent ideals meant to persist indefinitely: The eternal flame at Kennedy's grave has burned since 1963.
The phrase also describes passionate love or devotion that supposedly never dies—though this use tends toward the romantic or overwrought.
- cenotaphsMonuments for unrecovered dead
- Armistice DayWWI ceasefire commemoration
- immortalityExemption from death
- Remembrance DayMemorial for fallen soldiers
- veteran memorialsSites honoring military service
ceremonial fire · sacred fire · memorial gardens · plaques · divine presence · Zoroastrianism · yahrzeit · geothermal heat · wreath-laying · laying flowers · honor guard · commemoration · war monuments · fallen heroes · war memorials · undying · moment of silence · monuments
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- memorialsmemorial, memorial service, memorial statue, memorials, war memorial
- monumentsWashington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Arc de Triomphe
- patriotismnational anthem, national flags, love of country, patriotism, flag waving
- Public Monumentswar memorials, memorial walls, commemorative plaques, bronze statues, stone monuments
- collective memorycollective memory, public memory, remembrance, commemoration, commemorations