Quotes About Posthumous

#1. Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.

Laura Penny

#3. Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.

Janet Flanner

#4. High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the bumps, sand off the sharp corners.

Anne Fadiman

#5. A Bereavement? Franzen's posthumous novel?

Edan Lepucki

#6. I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Doris Lessing

#7. Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#8. The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

Milan Kundera

#9. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

Martin Filler

#11. One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Jean Cocteau

#12. Posthumous retention of copyright is really a gangrenous foot-in-the-door for the coming zombie apocalypse. And who in tarnation really wants that?

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#13. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#14. It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Gloria Steinem

#15. Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

Roberto Bolano

#16. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#17. Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

John Keats

#19. Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

Camilo Gomes Jr.

#20. People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.

Marcus Aurelius

#21. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.

Mas'udi

#22. Try to get all your posthumous medals in advance.

Gregory Benford

#23. She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.

Duff Brenna

#24. And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

Marcus Aurelius

#25. It was only in Palo Alto that I searched "Rachav Binder" and "Rach Binder," got an undousable flame of her defense of an article of mine critical of the Mormon Church's databasing of Holocaust victims in order to speed their posthumous conversions

Joshua Cohen

#26. POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT
FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#27. Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

Israel Zangwill

#29. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.

Marcus Aurelius

#30. Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

#31. It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

Lou Reed

#32. The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#33. Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

Felix Dennis

#34. Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

Anthony Browne

#35. Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing I have Ted, will have children but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him.

Sylvia Plath

#36. What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

Edmund White

#37. When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Tennessee Williams

#38. Posthumous pardons, however, do not resurrect the innocent.

Allan Nicol

#39. He pinched the remaining chapters' pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

David S.E. Zapanta

#40. I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

Emily Dickinson

#41. 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

#42. As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

David S.E. Zapanta

#43. Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

David S.E. Zapanta

#44. What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

John Sloan

#45. Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

Jacob M. Appel

#46. To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

David S.E. Zapanta