Last Words Quotes

• 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 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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• All my possessions for a moment of time.

  Elizabeth I

  Time, Moments, Famous Last Words

  Last words

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

  Groucho Marx

  Halloween, Lasts, Famous Last Words

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

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• See in what peace a Christian can die.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, Christian, Peace

  Dying words to his stepson Lord Warwick, in Edward Young 'Conjectures on Original Composition' (1759)

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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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• Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!

  Rudolph Valentino

  Want, Sunlight, Fine

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

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• I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Dies

  Said when a huge fee for an operation was mentioned, in R. H. Sherard 'Life of Oscar Wilde' (1906) p. 421

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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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• I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.

  Pope John Paul I

  Tomorrow, Gods Will, Ifs

  Last words, September 28, 1978.

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• Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Important, Dying

  "A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs" by Mona Simpson, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2011.

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

  John Barrymore

  Bad Ass, Atheism, Famous Last Words

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

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• A great leap in the dark

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dark, Leap

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

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• Go away... I'm alright.

  H. G. Wells

  Going Away, Greatest Love, Alright

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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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• Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wonderful, Wonderful Life

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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• The nourishment is palatable.

  Millard Fillmore

  Nourishment

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• Shakespeare, I come!

  Theodore Dreiser

  Theodore Dreiser's intended last words said to H. L. Mencken, as quoted in William Manchester "Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken" (pp. 109-110), 1950.

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• Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

  Johannes Brahms

  Nice, Dying, Taste

  Johannes Brahms' last words said after he had a small glass of wine, April 3, 1897.

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• Come my little one, and give me your hand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Giving, Dying

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• What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

  Gertrude Stein

  Aquarius, Answers, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

  Robert E. Howard

  Suicide, Lamps, Done

  Robert E. Howard (2004). “The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane”, p.406, Del Rey

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• Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?

  Boris Pasternak

  Bye, Good Bye

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• I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.

  Johnny Garrett

  Kissing, World, Care

  Last words, February 11, 1992.

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