Posthumous Quotes
Posthumous Quote of the day
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.
What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.
He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.
What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.