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.
I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out!
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.
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
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.
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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.
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.