September 26, 2010

  • "Famous Last Words"

       
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    It's a lovely day, gray and chilly late September and naturally my thoughts would be of cemeteries and Halloween 'n stuff  so i thought it would be interesting to share the last confirmed words of various individuals. Special thanks to (this is by no means the complete set of quotes) www.corsinet.com  for providing this touching, funny, sad and yet ultimately fascinating glimpse into human condition, in all its confounded wonder and glory.

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    Am I dying or is this my birthday?
    When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
    ~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964


    Codeine . . . bourbon.
    ~~ Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968


    Nothing, but death.
    When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
    ~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817


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

    Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?
    Minutes before her plane crashed.
    ~~ Jessica Dubroff, seven-year-old pilot, d. 1996


    It is very beautiful over there.
    ~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931

    I can't sleep.
    ~~ James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937


    How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
    ~~ P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891


    I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.
    ~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702


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


    Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
    ~~ Johannes Brahms, composer, d. April 3, 1897


    Et tu, Brute?
    Assassinated.
    ~~ Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, d. 44 BC


    I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
    ~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1, 1904


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

    That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
    ~~ Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959

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

    Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
    From Luke 23:46
    ~~ Jesus Christ

     

    Does nobody understand?
    ~~ James Joyce, writer, d. 1941

     

    Why not? Yeah.
    ~~ Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996

    Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
    To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.
    ~~ Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977


    That was a great game of golf, fellers.
    ~~ Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d. October 14, 1977


    I am not the least afraid to die.
    ~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882


    I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
    Facing his assassin, a Bolivian soldier.
    ~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolutionary, d. October 9, 1967

    Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
    Killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War.
    ~~ General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863


    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, revolutionary, d. 1883


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


    I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
    Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.
    ~~ Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523

    They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . .
    Killed in battle during US Civil War.
    ~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864


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

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

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

    Go away. I'm all right.
    ~~ H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946


    It's all been very interesting.
    ~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762


    Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
    ~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

Comments (8)

  • Moose...Indian..Why not? Yeah. That taste nice, thank you.

  • Oscar Wilde's made me laugh.
    Thanks for compiling and sharing these. At my age last words become very interesting.

  • "completely ineffectual" - my father's sudden and unexpected critique of a "thermacare" heat wrap we tried on him; he surprised us all with the casual delivery of this remark, made as it was in the wake of his temporal lobe craniotomy - the period prior to his demise when we were lucky to get a single word out of him over the course of an entire week.

  • oscar wilde would say that.

    a great collection

  • I've also heard that Oscar said, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go." Thanks for posting.

  • "I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."
    Executed by injection, Oklahoma.
    ~~ Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20, 1995

  • I don't know what to say; your comment made me cry.
    I don't know why. Maybe because I don't believe it- don't see it?

  • Actually that's a fragment of darwin's last words, the rest were trying to comfort his family.

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