Death Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

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

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments…

— John Lothrop Motley

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

— Stephen Gardiner

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found…

— Henry David Thoreau

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances…

— Madame de Stael

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

“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural…

— René Girard

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

— Varg Vikernes

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On…

— Victor Hugo

The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids,…

— John Henrik Clarke