#obit

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

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

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

— Quentin Crisp

#form #installment #last #missing #obituary

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

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

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews. ↗

— Roger Maris

#finally #give #good #like #obituaries

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

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#metaphysics #probity #right #scientific

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