I used to read the obituaries to gloat over all the people…

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

— Sam Kean

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 have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.”

— Clarence Darrow

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

“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

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

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

— Hannah More

“She didn't have a single friend on earth to see her off. She had outlived them all.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

— Ralph H. Baer

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

— Bill Hicks

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens.

— Bill Hicks