Quote by Roland Barthes

“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments,…

— Roland Barthes

“The Tower is not a sacred monument, and no taboo can forbid a commonplace life to develop there, but there can be no question,…

— Roland Barthes

“All of a sudden we saw a high, round tower in the distance, on a little hill. Father instantly decided that we must explore…

— Dodie Smith

“The purity of the message makes it even more remarkable. It’s easy to tell someone about the Leaning Tower. Much harder to tell them…

— Seth Godin

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will…

— Gustave Eiffel

“If you're going to climb a mountain, let it be a tall one. The view you'll see from the top will be incomparable.”

— Sōsuke Natsukawa

“In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The…

— Roland Barthes

“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.”

— Joseph Roth

“The tower was battered, a relic of a distant past. Yet there was a dignity to it, a grace that belied the pockmarked walls…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue…

— Georges Rodenbach

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The Looming Tower.”

— Jeremy Scahill