“Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.”
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”
Essex's Device (1595)
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“Those who do monumental work don't need monuments.”
Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker
After 50 years what democracy is this?
“The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.”
Roger Zelazny book This Immortal
Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 60
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
In response to talk of demolishing Libby Prison. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War https://archive.org/download/incidentsanecdot00port/incidentsanecdot00port.pdf (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 299 <br class="br">1860s, Tour of Richmond (1865)
Source: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 17 - 24; this was inspired by a eulogy by William Basse, On Shakespeare:
Context: Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further, to make thee a room;
Thou art a monument, without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live,
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 388
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“What the masses want are monuments.”
Jean Drapeau (1916–1999) former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1954-1957,1960-1986)
Quoted in We need politically incorrect mayors by Victor Schukov http://westislandgazette.com/victorschukov/26987, West Island Gazette, Saturday, December 3, 2011
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Quoted in 50 Military Leaders Who Changed the World (2007) by William Weir, p. 173
Unsourced variant: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.
“They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence.”
Stanley Fish (1938) American academic
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 9, Last Sentences, p. 130
El Lissitsky (1890–1941) Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect
c. 1930
Wikipedia: El Lissitzky, note [2]
1926 - 1941