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“Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was admitted to a prestigious, highly selective preschool. After that, everything just kind of fell into place." Instead, you will read about dead ends, lucky coincidences, quirky habits, excessive self-confidence (often interspersed with bursts of excessive self-doubt), and a lot of passion for something.”
― Charles Wheelan, 10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

“I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once.”
― Sarah Manguso, The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend

“Obituaries were the final diary page of life lived, whether pleasant or tragic, full or barren.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond

“I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it's a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?”
― Maira Kalman

“I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and took up professional whistling, the most engaging obit subjects were librarians. An obituary of a librarian could be about anything under the sun, a woman with a phenomenal memory, who recalled the books her aging patrons read as children—and was also, incidentally, the best sailor on her stretch of the Maine coast—or a man obsessed with maps, who helped automate the Library of Congress's map catalog and paved the way for wonders like Google Maps.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“He was obsessed with obituaries. She'd never read them before, he couldn't believe it, to him it was like someone who'd never read the funnies...Michael always wanted to know what they died of- accidental gunshot wounds, overdose, cancer. 'Was it suicide?' That's what he really wanted to know.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“Allow others who love your loved ones to send their condolences free on: Obituarytoday.com”
― ObituaryToday

“May our obituaries someday say--preferably after we're dead, of course--that we lived in peace, in love, and mostly in grace”
― jaime jo wright, The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond

“More than half of the obituaries are that of delight.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“Ever wanted to test your own level of invisibility? Write out your obituary and see how many people you are survived by.”
― Laura van den Berg, Find Me

“I’m surrounded by dead poets and dead novelists writing about their dead lovers and dead mothers, all day, every day, at work. Dead people have things to say too.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“I have a feeling he’s aware of everything going on around him and that he’ll jump to his feet at the slightest provocation and kill whoever bothered him with that damn sausage.

I wonder what my obituary would say in that scenario? Here lies Nicholette Bettencourt, who died from being whipped to death by sausage. Rest in peace.

Then again, do the criminals here get obituaries?”
― Ashlyn Hades, Broken Phoenix

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.”
― Clarence Darrow