Dying Last Words Quotes

• They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

  John Sedgwick

  Elephants, Civil War, Dodging Bullets

  Quoted in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887 - 1888). This line is popularly said to have been Sedgwick's last words and to have been cut off in the middle of "distance." In fact, this was Sedgwick's second-to-last sentence and was completed before the bullet hit.

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• I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

  Dominique Bouhours

  Funny, War, Humor

  "Mother Tongue". Book by Bill Bryson, July 1990.

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• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  O. Henry

  Home, Dark, Light

  Quoted in Charles Alphonso Smith, O. Henry (1916)

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• Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

  Jessica Dubroff

  Rain, Dying, Famous Last Words

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• Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

  Edmund Gwenn

  Dying, Comedy, Tough

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• Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Heaven, Dying

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• I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

  James K. Polk

  Love, Dying, Eternity

  Last words, spoken to his wife on June 15, 1849. "Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells" by Laura Ward, 2004.

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• Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Music, Light, Dying

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• I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Cry, Last Words, Judgment Day

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• Did you think I was immortal?

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Thinking, Famous Last Words, Immortal

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Death, Kings, Thinking

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

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dying, Rooms, Famous Last Words

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

  Errol Flynn

  Fun, Dying, Hell

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• That was a great game of golf, fellers.

  Bing Crosby

  Golf, Games, Dying

  1977 Last words, as he finished play at the 18th hole before suffering a heart attack.

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• Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

  William Saroyan

  Inspiration, Would Be, Famous Last Words

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!

  Joan Crawford

  Bad Ass, Helping, Famous Last Words

  Joan Crawford's last words said to her housekeeper, May 10, 1977.

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Dark, Journey

  Last words, in John Watkins 'Anecdotes of Men of Learning' (1808

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• This is the last of earth! I am content.

  John Quincy Adams

  Death, Dying, Earth

  Quoted in William H. Seward, Eulogy of John Quincy Adams Before Legislature of New York (1848)

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• Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

  Lady Jane Grey

  Hands, Spirit, Lord

  Lady Jane Grey, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1825). “The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.”, p.92

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• Let me go to the house of the Father.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, House, Famous Last Words

  "Vatican: Pope John Paul's Last Words in Polish". www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2005.

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

  Pancho Villa

  Inspirational, Witty, Military

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  God, Work, Technology

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• I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Halloween, Drinking, Bad Ass

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Francois Rabelais

  Money, Famous Last Words, Poor

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• I am not the least afraid to die

  Charles Darwin

  Bad Ass, Famous Last Words, Dies

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.348, Courier Corporation

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