#posthumous

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#books #born #men #posthumous #tomorrow

I like the look of agony, because I know it's true ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#posthumous #nature

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bequeathed #charities #essence #even #nothing

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#day #i #only #posthumous #really

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. ↗