Obits Quotes

#1. I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.

Pete Seeger

#2. I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.

Scott Glenn

#3. The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.

Gabriel Ba

#4. I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.

Veronica Lake

#5. I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Ben Bradlee

#6. During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

Tom Rachman

#7. 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

#8. The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

Brian Francis Slattery

#9. I am tired of days that are all the same.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

Sting

#11. I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this ... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

Sheryl Sandberg

#12. Yes, that's the bore of comfort," said Lord Warburton. "We only know when we're uncomfortable.

Henry James

#13. You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Paton