Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead. — Mark Harmon Copy Share Image
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Eight Bells: Robert J. Kane ‘55D died June 3, 2017, in Palm Harbor, Florida. He came to MMA by way of Boston… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“The lions of hard rock, guys like Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Brian Johnson, Rob Halford, these monsters feel completely timeless, iconic, eternal.… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The death of a person is not some number. Everyone's lives must have meaning. What's written here is something you could never… — Kafka Asagiri Copy Share Image
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
