Last-Words

26 quotes.

• I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

  Thomas Hobbes

• Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.

  Attributed to Oscar Wilde

• Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt.

  Socrates

• ...the fog is rising.

  Emily Dickinson's last words

• Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

• And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.

  Chris Hubbock, who shot herself during a broadcast

• Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

  Socrates

• Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son métier. God will forgive me. It's his job.

  Heinrich Heine

• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  Pancho Villa

• Drink to me.

  Pablo Picasso

• Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.

  Ludwig von Beethoven

• Go away...I'm alright.

  H. G. Wells

• Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

  Karl Marx to his housekeeper

• Goodbye, Everybody!

  Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage

• I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.

  Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian

• I still live.

  Daniel Webster

• More light!

  Goethe

• Now comes the mystery.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

  Georges Danton, to his executioner

• The nourishment is palatable.

  Millard Fillmore

• They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---

  General John B. Sedgwick, 1864

• This is the fourth?

  Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Jefferson--still surv...

  John Adams

• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot, Blackfoot warior and orator, 1890

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

  Gertrude Stein

• Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.

  James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad

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