last words Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

45 last words Quotes
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“This is the last of earth! I am content.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes
Source: Life of John Quincy Adams, his last words
“I don't feel good.”
Luther Burbank Quotes
Source: his last words
“I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.”
James Drummond Burns Quotes
Source: His Last Words
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.”
Edith Louisa Cavell Quotes
Source: quoted by the newspapers as before being shot by Germans in Brussels, Oct. 15, 1915
“The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.]”
Frederick, the Great (Frederick II) Quotes
Source: said to be his last words
“Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.”
Charles Frohman Quotes
Source: last words before he sank in the wreck of the Lusitania as reported by Rita Joliet
“Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]”
James Abram Garfield Quotes
Source: Last Words, written as he was dying
“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]”
James Abram Garfield Quotes
Source: Last Words, written as he was dying
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale Quotes
Source: his last words
“Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Source: his reported last words, hence, "Hobbes' voyage" used by Vanbrugh in "The Provoked Wife"
“Thank God, I have done my duty.”
Lord Horatio Nelson Quotes
Source: Life of Nelson, at the battle of Trafalgar
“I go to see the sun for the last time. [Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere fois.]”
Lord Horatio Nelson Quotes
Source: Life of Nelson, at the battle of Trafalgar
“Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”
Francisco Villa (Pancho Villa) Quotes
Source: his last words
“It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut perilleux.]”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes
Source: quoting the words of King Henry when he was about to enter the Catholic Church
“Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.”
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde) Quotes
Source: his last words
“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde) Quotes
Source: his last words
“The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!”
Sun Yat-sen Quotes
Source: on his deathbed
“Applaud friends, the comedy is over.”
Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes
“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.”
Chris Hubbock, who shot herself during a broadcast Quotes
“What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.”
Pierre Simon de Laplace Quotes
“Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!”
Andrew Bradford Quotes
“I wonder why he shot me?”
Huey P. Long, governor in Louisiana, was murdered. Quotes
“Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil.”
Wilhelm II, King of England, to his hunting-partner who missed the deer. Quotes
“"Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah."”
Timothy Leary Quotes
“Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?”
Sir Isaac Newton Quotes