“Great memories are things that others would like to hear that would never be found in your obituary.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. — Peter Utley 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
I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case.” — Jill Conner Browne Copy Share Image
Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead. — Mark Harmon 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
“It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious,… — Nikki Sixx 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
One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“it’s kids’ stuff, but I always thought my obituary would be in all the newspapers, that I’d have a story worth telling.… — John Green 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
“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
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for.… — Roz Savage 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
Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but… — George Ade 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
“I watch her watch me. I'm so hard my brain can barely function. All my blood is in my dick, and it's… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects… — Simon Brett Copy Share Image
“I've tried to deserve the privilege the best I can,' John McCain] said. 'And I've been repaid one thousand times over with… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
“Do something you would be proud to have in your obituary, but not something that will haunt you until that day. Live… — Audrey Regan 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
“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
“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'd been making desicions for days. I picked out the dress Bailey would wear forever- a black slinky one- innapropriate- that she… — Jandy Nelson 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
“The black hole of the galaxy swallows the boiling energy of human fury. Soon my waning fume will be obscured forevermore, all… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“So I'm on a little one-man crusade to bring the obituary closer to the front of the paper. Let's sing a bit… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
'She murdered sleep' - on the death of Agatha Christie in 1976 (please verify) — Nancy Banks-Smith Copy Share Image
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. — 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