I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

— Emily Dickinson

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

— Emily Dickinson

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

— Tennessee Williams

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Walsh was too full of his own—how shall I put it?—posthumous importance; too convinced that he should be seen almost as much a victim…

— D.W. Buffa

“How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?”

— John Keats

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

— Marcus Aurelius

Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is…

— Janet Flanner

“Dismemberment, even posthumous, is obscene.”

— Brian Kimberling

“If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself to being…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

You should die now if you was born so far within posthumous name

— Tivea

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

— Felix Dennis

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.”

— David S.E. Zapanta