Famous Last Words
These are the dying words of famous people, some of them humorous, some of them poignant. Enjoy!
James Rodges, Murderer, On Being Asked For A Final Request Before A Firing Squad:
Why, yes--a bulletproof vest.
H. G. Wells:
Go away...I'm alright.
Henry Ward Beecher:
Now comes the mystery.
Pablo Picasso:
Drink to me.
Ludwig von Beethoven:
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian:
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
Goethe:
More light!
Oscar Wilde, Sipping Champagne On His Deathbed:
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
John Adams:
Thomas Jefferson--still surv....
Thomas Jefferson:
This is the fourth?
Emily Dickinson:
...The fog is rising.
Georges Danton, To His Executioner:
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
George Saunders:
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
John Brown:
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
John Barrymore:
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
Crowfoot (Blackfoot Orator):
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Karl Marx:
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Heinrich Heine:
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Pancho Villa:
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
General John B. Sedgwick:
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....
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