Quotes About Posthumous

Even after a work-of-art tattoo was located, the problems were just beginning. The next obstacle in the collector's path was obtaining a contract for posthumous conveyance of the tattoo. The potential difficulty of this cannot be overemphasized, for people tend to be passionately attached to their own skins, even after death.

Our world is eagerly awaiting the posthumous publication of his works, which are rumored to contain an a priori proof of God's existence—a situation which has prompted me to flirt with the idea of a symbolism-heavy play entitled Waiting for Gödel.)

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.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

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

We are a jingoistic nation - whether it is politics or films or whatever. We can posthumously shower praises and accolades on people, but when they are alive, we don't bother about them. A classic case is Om Puri.

Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.

Thus, Hamilton triumphed posthumously over Burr, converting the latter's victory at Weehawken into his political coup de grâce. Burr's reputation perished along with Hamilton, exactly as Hamilton had anticipated.

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.

The Gaston de Blondeville was written in the early ninteenth century, but published posthumously in 1826 by Henry Colburn, three years after Radcliffe's death.

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.

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.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead

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

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

Pentru unii,totul vine prea tarziu: s-au nascut postum.

This is a book about notable achievements made while dead.

During the first century after Jesus' death, his followers interpreted his cosmic role—his posthumous descent into the Underworld, his ascent to heaven, and his invisible reign as universal king—in terms that echoed some ancient traditions about Greco-Roman gods and heroes.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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

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

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