#obituary

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#form #installment #last #missing #obituary

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#every #get #grab #i #look

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#constant #fool #labor #life #man

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#amount #die #going #good #great

I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. ↗

— John Green

#love #obituary #relationship #death

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#except #obituary #own #publicity #such

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#good #notice #obituary #publicity

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

— Arthur Smith

#get #higher #higher standard #obituary #standard

Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move. ↗

— Avi Steinberg

#death #obituary #death

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

— Clarence Darrow

#die #few #i #never #notices