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This is the last of earth! I am content.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: Life of John Quincy Adams, his last words
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I don't feel good.
Author: Luther Burbank
Source: his last words
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I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.
Author: James Drummond Burns
Source: His Last Words
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred
toward any one.
Author: Edith Louisa Cavell
Source: quoted by the newspapers as before being shot by Germans in Brussels, Oct. 15, 1915
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The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better.
[Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.]
Author: Frederick, the Great (Frederick II)
Source: said to be his last words
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Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Author: Charles Frohman
Source: last words before he sank in the wreck of the Lusitania as reported by Rita Joliet
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Tortured for the Republic.
[Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]
Author: James Abram Garfield
Source: Last Words, written as he was dying
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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Author: James Abram Garfield
Source: Last Words, written as he was dying
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Author: Nathan Hale
Source: his last words
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Author: Thomas Hobbes
Source: his reported last words, hence, "Hobbes' voyage" used by Vanbrugh in "The Provoked Wife"
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Thank God, I have done my duty.
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Source: Life of Nelson, at the battle of Trafalgar
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I go to see the sun for the last time.
[Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere fois.]
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Source: Life of Nelson, at the battle of Trafalgar
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Author: Francisco Villa (Pancho Villa)
Source: his last words
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It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap.
[Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut
perilleux.]
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: quoting the words of King Henry when he was about to enter the Catholic Church
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: his last words
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Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: his last words
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The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry
on!
Author: Sun Yat-sen
Source: on his deathbed
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Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Source: None
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And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
Author: Chris Hubbock, who shot herself during a broadcast
Source: None
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What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
Author: Pierre Simon de Laplace
Source: None
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Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!
Author: Andrew Bradford
Source: None
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I wonder why he shot me?
Author: Huey P. Long, governor in Louisiana, was murdered.
Source: None
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Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil.
Author: Wilhelm II, King of England, to his hunting-partner who missed the deer.
Source: None
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"Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah."
Author: Timothy Leary
Source: None
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Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Author: Sir Isaac Newton
Source: None
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Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
Author: George Saunders
Source: None
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Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Author: Socrates
Source: None
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Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
Author: James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad
Source: None
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Go away... I'm alright.
Author: H. G. Wells
Source: None
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...the fog is rising.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: None
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Drink to me.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Source: None
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I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used.
Author: Last words of Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian
Source: None
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And now, I am dying beyond my means.
Author: Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne on his deathbed
Source: None
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God will pardon me. It is his trade.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: None
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They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
Author: General Sedgewick, killed in battle 1864, imprudently looking over the parapet at the enemy lines
Source: None
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Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!
Author: Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette
Source: None
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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
Author: Oscar Wilde on his deathbed
Source: None
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I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Author: Che Guevara, facing his assassin
Source: None
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All my possessions for a moment of time
Author: Elizabeth I
Source: None
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Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Author: Karl Marx
Source: None
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18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record.
Author: Dylan Thomas
Source: None
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He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.
Author: Epitaph
Source: None
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Here lies Charles Cuevas. He once said "Gimme hockey, or gimme death." He didn't quite get hockey.
Author: Epitaph
Source: None
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Don't worry! It's not loaded.
Author: Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette
Source: None
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Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!
Author: General Mad Anthony Wayne When told by his doctors the angels were waiting for him.
Source: None
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