Famous Last Words Quotes

• Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

  David

  Strong, House, Failing

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• I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

  John Hancock

  Looks, Last Words, Pleasant

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• I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

  Alfred the Great

  Men, Remembrance, Desire

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• Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

  Groucho Marx

  Halloween, Lasts, Spooky

  "What Jesus' Words in Death Reveal About His Life" by Greg Laurie, www.christianpost.com. April 14, 2017.

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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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• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Fighting

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• 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 not the least afraid to die

  Charles Darwin

  Bad Ass, Dies, Dying Last Words

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

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• All my possessions for a moment of time.

  Elizabeth I

  Time, Moments, Prized Possessions

  Last words

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

  Joan Crawford

  Bad Ass, Helping, Help Me

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

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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, Born

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• I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Coward, Revolutionary

  "The Death of Che Guevara: Declassified" by Peter Kornbluh, nsarchive2.gwu.edu.

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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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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• I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Records, Whisky

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• All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

  Henry VIII of England

  Dying, Losing, Monk

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• It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Neil Young

  Death, Running, Believe

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Death, Book

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 3, ch. 15 (1859)

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• If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

  Spencer Silver

  Failure, Silly, Creativity

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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, Made

  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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