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Quotes About Posthumous

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
Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.
~ Rokia Traore
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
~ Martial
Le opere postume hanno lo squisito vantaggio di risparmiarti le scemenze o le perfidie di coloro che senza saper scrivere e neanche concepire un romanzo pretendono di giudicare anzi bistrattare chi lo concepisce e lo scrive.
~ Oriana Fallaci
He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
~ Paul Auster