Famous Last Words

The following quotes I have collected from random websites. They are supposedly The last words of people who soon after died.

“Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”


- John Barrymore, actor, d. May 29, 1942

“Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait.
”

In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."


- Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. 1789

“I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.”


- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702

“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

- Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

“Am I dying or is this my birthday?
”

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.


- Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964

"Nothing, but death." 

When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.


- Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817

“Codeine . . . bourbon.
”

- Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968

“Now comes the mystery.”


- Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887

“Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
”

- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827

“Beautiful.
”

In reply to her husband who had asked how she felt.


- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, d. June 28, 1861

"The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."

Dying of tuberculosis.


- Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849

"I'm bored with it all.”

Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.


- Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

"This time it will be a long one."


- Georges Clemenceau, French premier, d. 1929

"Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.


To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.


- Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977

"I am not the least afraid to die."


- Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882

"Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire."


(Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)


- Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927

"No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end."


- Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910

"All my possessions for a moment of time." 

- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603

"I've never felt better." 

- Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring." 

- Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988

"I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it."


- Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959

"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."


Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.


~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967

"God will pardon me, that's his line of work."

~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856

"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."


From Luke 23:46


~~ Jesus Christ

"Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?"


~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715

"I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms."


~~ Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820

"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough."


To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883

"I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence!"


~~ Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, (Archduke Maximilian of Austria), d. June 11, 1867

"Nothing matters. Nothing matters."


~~ Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29, 1957

"It's all been very interesting."

~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762

"I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room."


~~ Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953

"Get my swan costume ready."

~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931

"I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor."


~~ François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553

"Put out the light."


~~ Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919

"Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die."


Spoken to his nurse.


~~ George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d. November 2, 1950

"I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices"


Suicide note 


~~ Virginia Woolf, author, d. March 28, 1941

"God bless... God damn."


~~ James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."


~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."

~~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519

"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper."


Executed in California's gas chamber.
~~ Robert Alton Harris, d. April 21, 1992

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

"I am ready."

~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924

"Such is Life" 


Executed by hanging.


~~ Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, d. 1880

"It's very beautiful over there." 

(Suffering from re-occuring pneumonia and semi-unconscious, his wife, Mina, ask "Are your suffering?" to which he replied, "No, just waiting." Then looked out of his bedroom window and softly spoke his last words.)

- Thomas A Edison 

"Never felt better." 

(Became ill after returning from a USC-UCLA football game. A doctor prescribed bed rest, a restricted diet, and nursing care. After sleeping most of the next morning, his nurse asked, "How are you?")

- Douglas Fairbanks

"I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me"

- Dwight David Eisenhower

"It's very beautiful over there." 

(Suffering from re-occuring pneumonia and semi-unconscious, his wife, Mina, ask "Are your suffering?" to which he replied, "No, just waiting." Then looked out of his bedroom window and softly spoke his last words.)

- Thomas A Edison

"KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low." 

(After taking off from New Guinea, her plane mysteriously disappeared.)

- Amelia Earhart

". . . the fog is rising" 

(After lapsing in and out of consciousness for several days suffering from kidney disease.)

- Emily Dickinson

"That guy's got to stop. . . . He'll see us." 

(James died in an automoblie accident.)

- James Dean

"I am not the least afraid to die." 

(Speaking to his son.)

- Charles Darwin

"It was a great game." 

(After completing a round of golf at the La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid, Spain.)

- Bing Crosby

"I have tried so hard to do right." 

(Refering to his two unpopular terms as President.)

- Grover Cleveland

"Why not? After all, it belongs to him." 

(Responding to a priest who said "May the Lord have mercy on your soul.")

- Charles Chaplin 

“Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.”


- Ethel Barrymore, actress, d. June 18, 1959

"Josephine..."


- Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, May 5, 1821

"Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."


- Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824