“POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali 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
“I want to say again, for the potentially posthumous record, that this is a shit idea.” — Pierce Brown 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
I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead. — Varg Vikernes 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
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
What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings… — Edmund White 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
“Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death… — David S.E. Zapanta Copy Share Image
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations… — Gloria Steinem 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
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
“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
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
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
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man,… — Francis Parker Yockey 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
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
“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
I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. — Doris Lessing 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
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
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
“To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.” — David S.E. Zapanta Copy Share Image