Famous Last Words


And now, I am dying beyond my means.~ Oscar Wilde

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ~ Marie Antoinette

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!~ Augustus

Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do.~ Palmeston

Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something…~ Pancho Villa

Drink to me.~ Pablo Picasso

Dying is a very dull and dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.~ William Somerset Maugham

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.~ Ludwig von Beethoven

Go away…I’m alright.~ H.G.Wells

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough ~ Karl Marx

Hold your tongue! Your wretched chatter disgusts me.~ Malesherbes

I am about to, or I am going to, die; either expression is used.~ Dominique Bouhours

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.~ Thomas Hobbes

I am just going outside and I may be some time.~ Crowfoot

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon.~ John Newton

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles.~ Niccolo Machiavelli

I don’t fell good.~ Luther Burbank

If I had strength to hold a pen I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.~ Dr. William Hunter

I failed!~ Jean Paul Sartre

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.~ Leonardo da Vinci

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.~ Cesare Borgia

It’s my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!~ Thomas Hobbes

It is very beautiful over there.~ Thomas Edison

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.~ George Washington

Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.~ Stonewall Jackson

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.~ Hannibal

Lord, let me live until I die.~ Will Rogers

More light!~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My God, my God, have mercy on me, and on my poor people!~ William of Orange

My work is done why wait.~ George Eastman

Now comes the mystery.~ Henry Ward Beecher

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.~ The prophet Mohammed

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? — Where do you go? ~ Cardinal Mazarin

Severn – I – lift me up – I am dying – I shall die easy; don’t be frightened – be firm, and thank God it has come.~ Keats

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.~ George Danton

So, now all is gone—Empire, Body and Soul!~ Henry the Eight

The best of it is, God is with us.~ John Wesley

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender~ Anne Boleyn

The fog is rising…~ Emily Dickinson

There are no more other worlds to conquer!~ Alexander the Great

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…~ Gen John Sedgewick

Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.~ O.Henry

What a fool I have been!~ Churchill

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