Obituary Quotes

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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

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.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

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.

You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

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.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

In a world spoiled by the obituary of attention and the dormancy of empathy, people are coming up short of authentic emotion. (“The upper lip must never tremble”)

When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit