“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 Copy Share Image
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing.… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
Dominicus Corea had a posthumous son, Lewis Corea who became the Dissawe of Uva. Sir Paul Peiris wrote that `With the disappearance… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence. — John Keats Copy Share Image
It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image