I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. — John Keats Copy Share Image
You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be… — George Packer 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
“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
“She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he… — Duff Brenna 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 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
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
“Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to… — Roberto Bolaño 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
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
“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
One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never… — Paul Di Filippo 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
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the… — Jacques Derrida 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
He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive.… — Paul Auster 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
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“I want to say again, for the potentially posthumous record, that this is a shit idea.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Walsh was too full of his own—how shall I put it?—posthumous importance; too convinced that he should be seen almost as much… — D.W. Buffa Copy Share Image
“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image