I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries…

The first thing you should do when you get up is read the obituaries. You never know when you'll see a name that will…

— Edward James Salisbury

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

— Clarence Darrow

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

— Bill Paxton

“I used to read the obituaries to gloat over all the people I've outlived, but now I don't think it matters, we all live…

— Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

— Mark Twain

“(Perhaps we all should be so lucky to read our own obituaries…)”

— Sam Kean

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

— Charles Wheelan

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why…

— Regina Brett

“Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it…

— Laurie Nadel

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Evan Esar

“More than half of the obituaries are that of delight.”

— Mantaranjot Mangat

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're…

— Marilyn Johnson

“Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find…

— Charles Wheelan

There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure…

— John Lindsay