Burden Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Arthur Smith

“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen-…

— Chris Cleave

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

— Walter Cronkite

If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama,…

— Alanna Knight

Everyday I live, I am writing my obituary.

— Myles Munroe

As the dead lingers around, the living person suffers in the end

— Anonymous

In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up.

— Melvin Van Peebles

“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passing of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a…

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as…

— Kate Mosse

“I want to leave behind something worth more than obituary posters when I am gone.”

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu