Country Quote by Alistair Maclean

I'm a huge Obituary fan.

— Max Cavalera

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

— Freeman Dyson

“The coroner was a jovial man, at least ten years past retirement age. His face was red from exertion, his hair white and straggly,…

— J.T. Ellison

“At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps,…

— Martin Amis

“According to his upbringing, there were certain subjects that it was ill-mannered to raise in conversation with a new acquaintance. With the likes of…

— Jonathan L. Howard

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not,…

— Lesley Manville

“He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying.…

— William Kent Krueger

“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache, who had been a down-and-out tramp in Vienna in his youth, an unknown soldier of World War…

— William L. Shirer

“He left for his day at the library. Today is research day. When he got there, he went directly to the microfiche machine and…

— Jean Holloway

“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity. He had asked for a bottle of red wine and had drunk half of it.…

— Hannah Arendt

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

— Clarence Darrow