More than half of the obituaries are that of delight.

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

— Evan Esar

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 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

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

“Yellow journalism turns purple when third page obituaries appear on page one.”

— Mantaranjot Mangat

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization…

— Tao Lin

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

— Smriti Irani

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 great pleasure.

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Maira Kalman