Absence Quote by Roger Zelazny Download Open image “The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.” — Roger Zelazny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence Monument Way
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom. — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles Copy Share Image
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Time, too, is a function of Shadow, and even Dworkin did not know all of its ins and outs. Or perhaps he did. Maybe… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Far below, the ocean was a bluegray rug being pulled out from beneath us.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“That was the first time in my life that I knew the meaning of despair. I read, I worked, I drank, I whored, but… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
