Famous Last Words Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

  Thomas J. Grasso

  Firefly, Katniss, Catching Fire

  Last words, March 20, 1995.

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• The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Funny, Wise, Technology

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• Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.

  Charles Frohman

  Beautiful, Death, Adventure

  Quoted in Isaac F. Marcosson and Daniel Frohman, Charles Frohman: Manager and Man (1916)

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• The taste of death is upon my lips.  I feel something that is not of this earth.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Taste, Lips, Earth

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• The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

  Anne Boleyn

  Believe, Experts, Necks

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• I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

  Gary Cooper

  Silly, Fall, Dumb

  "Gone with the Wind/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1939.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Bad Ass, Why Not, Dying Last Words

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• I'll be in hell before you start breakfast - let her rip!

  Tom Ketchum

  Rip, Bad Ass, Breakfast

  Last words, April 26, 1901.

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• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  Irving Fisher

  Funny, Depression, Money

  "Incoming Presidential Speech: International Society for the Systems Sciences 43rd Annual Meeting" by Peter Corning, complexsystems.org. June 02, 2015.

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

  Francois Rabelais

  Money, Poor, Dying Last Words

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• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Clancy Brown

  Lovely, Highlander, Rock Song

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• I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.

  Pietro Perugino

  World, Next, Curious

  Last words, 1523.

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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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• 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

  Writing, Goes On, Lasts

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• I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

  Del Close

  Tired, Rooms, Persons

  Last words of Del Close, 1999.

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• A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Ideas, Yale, Order

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• Let me go to the house of the Father.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, House, Let Me Go

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

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• To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

  Lupe Velez

  Suicide, Baby, Suicidal

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• Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.

  Georges Danton

  War, People, Shows

  Quoted in Thomas Carlyle, History of the French Revolution (1837)

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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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• Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

  George Sanders

  Suicide, Sweet, Good Luck

  "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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