Alive Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Not a stone but has its history.

— Lucan

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere…

— Pericles

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but…

— Pericles

“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal…

— Anthony Thwaite

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead

— George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

— Lew Wallace

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it…

— Milan Kundera

Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

— Delphine de Vigan