Posthumously Quotes

#1. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

Maureen Dowd

#2. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

J.D. Salinger

#3. 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

#4. Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Clive Bell

#5. Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely."
"I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. wherever the argument, like a wind, tends, thither must we go.

Plato

#8. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously.

Haruki Murakami

#9. You saw the darkest parts of my life - the worst parts of me - and you didn't hate me. I didn't have to put on an act with you.

Michelle Madow

#10. If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.

Maurice Kendall

#11. There are only two ways of telling the complete truth
anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

#12. It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

Jane Campion

#13. Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model

Adam Schiff

#14. Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.

Richard Eyre

#16. What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Orson Scott Card

#17. Internists know everything but do nothing; surgeons know nothing but do everything; psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing; and pathologists know everything and do everything, but it is too late.

Vincent DiMaio

#18. If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Some men are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#21. When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

Edmund White

#22. The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.

Santosh Kalwar

#23. And I stand in the hallway, alone, grinning like an idiot.

Veronica Roth

#24. I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Christopher Hitchens

#25. My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Abraham Verghese