final gasps



"And so I leave this world,
where the heart must either break
or turn to lead."
Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort (Suicide note)

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders' dying words

The nourishment is palatable.
Millard Fillmore, dying words

More light!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair.
And my advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maughm

...the fog is rising.
Emily Dickinson, dying words

Now comes the mystery.
Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887

This is the fourth?
Thomas Jefferson, dying words

Such is life.
Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol

Drink to me.
Pablo Picasso, dying words

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864

Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words

Go away...I'm alright.
H. G. Wells, dying words

I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, dying words

"We are sorry to announce
that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell,
owing to his recent death,
and is taking a short holiday to recover."
Parish Magazine

Go on, get out.
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx's last words to his housekeeper

Why yes - a bulletproof vest.
James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad

What is the answer?
In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein's last words

I still live.
Daniel Webster's last words

"Let us live so that when we come to die
even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain

"Biography lends to death a new terror."
Oscar Wilde

"Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die
beyond my means."
Oscar Wilde, dying words

There are some experiences in life
which should not be demanded twice from any man,
and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
George Bernard Shaw