Obituary Quotes
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Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.
— Mason Cooley
Write your dream obituary and live that life!
— Tami Holzman
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
— Arthur Smith
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
— Clarence Darrow
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
— Benjamin Franklin
Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case.
— Jill Conner Browne
I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
— Tobias Wolff
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
— Philip Guedalla
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
— William Faulkner
When my obituary notice at last appears in The Times, and they say: 'What, I thought he died years ago,' my ghost will gently chuckle.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
— Clarence Darrow
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
— George Jean Nathan
Every menu is an obituary.
— Wislawa Szymborska
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
— Brendan Behan
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
— Barbara Kruger
He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - "just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917".
— Jascha Heifetz
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
— Spencer Abraham
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
— James Joyce
When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit
— Nicole Krauss
I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.
— George Burns
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
— Brendan Behan
One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping ...
— Dana Gould
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..
— Jimmy Breslin
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
— Freeman Dyson
Obituary: He/she is survived by his/her Want-to-Read/Currently-Reading Goodreads shelf
— Brian Alan Ellis
I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.
— Carrie Brownstein
God was long gone before Nietzsche made his death certificate into a slogan, but no onehas yet written the obituary of the Devil. — Thomas Ligotti
I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
— Art Buchwald
There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered
— Chuck Palahniuk
Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.
— Rupert Murdoch
Live in such a way no one who reads your obituary will be surprised you're a Christian.
— Darrell Case
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
— Clarence Darrow
Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.
— Mark Harmon
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
— Albert Brooks
