Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“It is a sad fact that all flesh must die, but there is no reason why one's story, as well as one's soul, should…

— Andrei Codrescu

“And to one side of the room, occupying most of the open space, sat an enormous coffin of solid, cream-colored stone. Its surface was…

— Tessa Dare

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept…

— William Shakespeare

“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more, and as…

— W.G. Sebald

Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should…

— Archimedes

“I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents…

— John Green

“Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say- here, here lies my beloved; ye know not…

— Herman Melville

“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“...stooping very low, He engraves with care His Name, indelible, upon our dust; And from the ashes of our self-despair, Kindles a flame of…

— Patricia St. John

“His eyes as hard and beautiful as frozen gemstones.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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