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

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

— Mark Twain

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of 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

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

— Sam Kean

“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

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

It's a great pleasure to be linked to such a great club like Tottenham.

— Paulinho

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

— Martin Heidegger

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

— Anonymous

“A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order…

— Georges F. Doriot

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to…

— Don DeLillo

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

— Charles Wheelan

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

— Maira Kalman

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

— Evan Esar