Endure Quote by Pliny the Younger

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

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

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

— Agesilaus II

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 should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in…

— Anna Akhmatova

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

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

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

“In this circumstance the text, which both records their actions and describes the monuments they erected, acts as the primary, indeed sole “memory place”…

— Michael A. Flower

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe