God help Quote by Kate Morton

“Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find…

— Charles Wheelan

“I wrote something for my local newspaper, but nobody read it because it got buried in the obituary section.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice. 'It's her own funeral, you…

— Saki

“As the victim of those impulses she must be looking in the paper for his obituary.”

— Saul Bellow

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

— Peter Utley

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

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of…

— Marcel Proust

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

— Robert Mankoff

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

— Arthur Smith

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of…

— Spencer Abraham

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

— Michel Faber

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

— Freeman Dyson