Quotes About Posthumous

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

I kind of thought eventually, someday, somehow, I would be Hall of Fame, whether it was nWo, DX, or whatever, and honestly, I thought it would probably happen when I was no longer around.

Mais, lui, ne voulant pas renier son caractère, avait, avant de se suicider, brûlé l'œuvre de sa vie, la rendant au néant en quelques instants, après avoir consacré des dizaines d'années à la mener à bien, et il n'avait pas voulu la laisser à une postérité qui ne la méritait en aucun cas (Génie).

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.

To read all these stories and more, you will have to wait till I am dead and a suicidal publisher decides to print them.

What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.

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

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.

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.

My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.

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

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

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Walsh was too full of his own—how shall I put it?—posthumous importance; too convinced that he should be seen almost as much a victim as his daughter, to confine himself to the truth. He would embellish things to put himself in the best possible light.

The memorials best befitting Shakespeare's stature and accomplishments were in fact created and preserved by those who honoured his legacy: a monument and a gravestone in Stratford's church; and, seven years after his death, a lavish collection of his plays, prefaced by commendatory verses and his portrait. At the time, no English playwright had ever been posthumously honoured with such a collection.

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

There's a part of me which feels content to leave songs in a vault not to be heard until after my death.

Within ten weeks of his death, Hank had as many albums on the market as he did all the years he lived; hundreds more would follow. The oil well that Hank Williams became in death was starting to gush

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

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