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

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan

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

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
Peter Utley

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Philip Guedalla

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
Spencer Abraham

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

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

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
Billy Sunday

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
George Jackson

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

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
Albert Brooks

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
Barbara Kruger