After death Quote by Lew Wallace

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

History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and…

— David Olusoga

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

— Henry David Thoreau

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

— Roger Zelazny

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

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

— Ambrose Bierce

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

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

— Pericles

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional,…

— Mitch Landrieu

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in…

— Joseph Anderson

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger