Subject: Death » Last words (Page 8)

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

(1915 – 1963) French singer & cultural icon

Lady, you shot me.

(1931 – 1964) American singer, songwriter & entrepreneur

I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.

(1907 – 1954) Mexican painter

Hey, watch this!

It is nothing… it is nothing…

(1863 – 1914) Archduke of Austria

I feel sleepy, a short time of rest would do me good.

(1746 – 1792) King of Sweden

I’m always angry when I’m dying.

(1923 – 2009) English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter & author

Are you happy?  I'm happy.

(1879 – 1959) American actress

This is it! I'm going. I'm going.

(1886 – 1950) American singer, comedian & actor

I have to set my pillows one more night… when will this end already?

(1783 – 1859) American author, essayist, biographer & historian

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

(1873 – 1956) English poet, short story writer & novelist

Gentlemen, I bid you farewell.


Take away those pillows. I shall need them no more.

(1832 – 1898) English author, mathematician, logician & photographer

Now I can cross the Shifting Sands.

(1856 – 1919) American author including (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

I remember what my grandmother said to me on her deathbed: She said: ‘I wish I’d bought a normal bed.’

British stand-up comedian, writer & actor

The nourishment is palatable.

(1800 – 1874) 13th U.S. President

I am dying. Please… bring me a toothpick.

(1873 – 1907) French writer

On the contrary!

(1828 – 1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director & poet

No, but comfortable enough to die.

(1717 – 1780) Empress of Austria & Hungary

Now comes the mystery.

(1813 – 1887) American clergyman, social reformer & abolitionist

Don't make a mess of it – shoot straight, you bastards.

(1864 – 1902) Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet & soldier