Posthumous Honor Quotes

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

Posthumously means getting something after you’re dead, which is not as good as getting something while you are alive, but better than not getting anything at all.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

The only question now is which corpse gets the most flowers?

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

Don't bury me with anyone old.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not until then, let my epitaph be written.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.

Rarely was a distinction deserves as the Oscar for best supporting actor, who went to the late Heath Ledger. His 'Joker' is really incredible.