I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.
We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.
The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.
I've never seen 'Mad Men.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I've never seen 'The Sopranos.' These sort of seminal shows.
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.