Bars Quote by Anna Akhmatova

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

— Pliny the Younger

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

— Agesilaus II

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another…

— Joseph Joubert

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of…

— William Hazlitt

Make you're choices, answer your calls. Live the moments and the monuments will take care of themselves, carved from after you've gone or shaped…

— Anonymous

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.

— Rob Huebel

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec