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“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“I like a look of agony, because I know it's true”
― Emily Dickinson

“He pinched the remaining chaptersâ€� pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.”
― David S.E. Zapanta, Posthumous

“As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.”
― David S.E. Zapanta, Posthumous

“Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.”
― Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home

“To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.”
― David S.E. Zapanta, Posthumous

“Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.”
― David S.E. Zapanta, Posthumous

“If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself to being unfashionable and possibly unnoticed, at least for a while. As Kurt Woolf, Kafka’s first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka’s book tanked, “You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.â€� Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone else’s success and, therefore, to create nothing that might create an echo of its own.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides

“Life owes us nothing just because we are granted it. But, we do owe our own lives everything. Our life is a gift. When you see that for yourself, you see that the lives of others is also a gift.

There's no such thing as "gone too soon" or "before their time." Our end date is not guaranteed. We are given just one life. And, that life- no matter how young or how old it is when it leaves us in the physical form - is put here for us to learn, grow and love in some capacity.

Your legacy doesn't have to wait until you're dead and gone to be seen.

Live it with each breath you take.
Live it through your actions toward others.
Live it with the time you have now.

I want to see my life's impact during my time here on earth. Posthumous appreciation is overrated.”
― Jamie A. Triplin

“Critics established the right to say whatever they pleased about the dead. It is an absolute power, and the corruption that comes with it, very often, is an atrophy of the moral imagination. They move onto the living because they can no longer feel the difference between the living and the dead. They extend over the living that license to say whatever they please, to ransack their psyche and reinvent them however they please. They stand in front of classes and present this performance as exemplary civilized activity—this utter insensitivity towards other living human beings. Students see the easy power and are enthralled, and begin to outdo their teachers. For a person to be corrupted in that way is to be genuinely corrupted.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT

FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure

Kamil Ali”
― Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales

“What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.”
― john sloan, Gist of Art: Principles and Practice Expounded in the Classroom and Studio

“A posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime)”
― Charles de Leusse

“Fame in posterity is like wreaths or bouquets of flowers offered to a beautiful maid now that she is a skeleton. They are there to give credit to the flowers or the giver of them rather than to the dead maid. - On Posthumous Fame.”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“The old are still accorded human rights. The dead, however, lose all rights from the very first second of death. No law protects them any longer from slander, their privacy has ceased to be private; not even the letters written to them by their loved ones, not even the family album left to them by their mothers, nothing, nothing belongs to them any longer.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“Henceforth, toys are chemical in substance and colour; their very material introduces one to a coenaethesis of use, not pleasure. These toys die in fact very quickly, and once dead, they have no posthumous life for the child.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“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, The Rage and the Pride