The Last Words…

Did you ever stop to think if anyone says something really profound or witty when they know they are about to die? I was curious about some of the people I admire and then found some others I thought worthy enough to share.

Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite writers…and his final words didn’t let me down 🙂

I’ve had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that’s the record . . .
~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953

To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?
Suicide note.
~~ George Eastman, inventor, d. March 14, 1932

Moose . . . Indian . . .
~~ Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862

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

I die hard but am not afraid to go.
~~ George Washington, US President, d. December 14, 1799

(My Personal favorite)
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

Lord help my poor soul.
~~ Edgar Allan Poe, writer, d. October 7, 1849

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire.
(Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)
~~ Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
~~ François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603

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

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

A dying man can do nothing easy.
~~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d. April 17, 1790

God will pardon me, that’s his line of work.
~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856

Turn up the lights, I don’t want to go home in the dark.
~~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d. June 4, 1910

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
~~ Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956

Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?
~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715

I must go in, the fog is rising.
~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
~~ Alexander Pope, writer, d. May 30, 1744

Nothing, but death.
When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 181

Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1821

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
~~ Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824

I’m bored with it all.
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

Goodnight my darlings, I’ll see you tomorrow.
~~ Noel Coward, writer, d. 1973

Get my swan costume ready.
~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931