Dedicated Quote by 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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of…

— Marguerite Gardiner

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Varg Vikernes

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman

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

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the…

— James A. Garfield