To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne

Related Quotes

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

— Sir Thomas Browne

For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.

— Sir Thomas More

Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.

— Thomas Fuller

Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.

— Sir Thomas Browne

Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.

— Sir Thomas Browne