All Quotes By Tag: Obituary

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
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“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.”

Card image cap - Avi Steinberg,
Tag: career, death, obituary,

“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.”

Card image cap - John Green,
Tag: death, love, obituary, relationship,

“When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit”

Card image cap - Nicole Krauss,
Tag: death, love, obituary, romance,

“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. (It’s the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.”

Card image cap - Christopher Hitchens,
Tag: afterlife, atheism, death, despair, eternal-life, heaven, hell, life, meaning-of-life, obituary,