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    As someone already mentioned, I think that the Roman emperor Vespasian has one of the most memorable death bed quotes. I already have my last words planned out. I'll gather my family close to the bedside as though I intend to give a grand farewell speech, and then break into a Foo Fighters song. That ought to be memorable.
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    I have always been rather fond of Walter de la Mare's deathbed utterance.
    As he lay dying, de la Mare's daughter paid him a visit. "Is there anything I can get you?" she asked, "fruit, flowers?"
    de la Mare replied: "too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."

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    now that one was funny
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    Goethe's last words were "More light."
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    This reminds me, that I randomly happened to read a quote by Henry David Thoreau on his deathbed, when his aunt asked him if Thoreau had made peace with God:
    "Why, I did not know we had quarreled."

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    In the play Othello, Othello's last words are:
    "I kissed thee er I killed thee. No way but this. killing myself, to die upon a kiss."

    In regards to his just sensless murdering of his wife.
    Slow down everyone, you're moving too fast.
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    "I'm so bored with it all." - Winston Churchill
    "...You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend.... I bow to them... I love them, I cling to them, I run them down. I bite into them, I melt them down.... I love words so much... The unexpected ones....The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop..." -Pablo Neruda

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade
    humm... I was just wondering around and saw the Wilde's death bed quote "the wallpaper..." and I know the Nelson one "Kissmet Horatio" and all that and then there is Keats cant think of it but its quoted in the Fall of Hyperion ( the novel not the poem) so I was wondering f anyone new any other ones.
    Actually, Horatio was Nelson's first name and the quote was either 'Kismet, Hardy' or 'Kiss me, Hardy' - no one's really sure. I guess if he meant 'Kismet' and then Hardy leant over and kissed him, he must have felt a bit peeved.

    Apparently Wittgenstein's was 'Tell them I had a wonderful life', which may have been disingenuous, as in, not so much 'I had a wonderful life' as 'that'll do for public consumption'.

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    It is said that Aliester Crowley's last words were "I am perplexed." Strange for a man reputed to be the "wickedest man in the world"... My own I think would be "Thank God it's over!"
    Some of us laugh
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    I think on my death bed I'd rather not say anything, just give 'um a wink and go.
    Slow down everyone, you're moving too fast.
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    I would probably say something like"i know you will all do well in your lives and remember that i always loved you"

    "i realize you could break your neck but that is a chance I am willing to take" wayne to dwayne in Rat Race.

    oh i just remembered my absolute favorite death 'bed' quote. Sir Thomas Moore said to those assisting him up the stairs to his execution(he was very weak from his stay in the tower) "if you will be so kind as to assist me in getting up i shall make my own way down as best I can".

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    Two quotes come to mind.

    When Henry David Thoreau was on his deathbed, his pious aunt asked if he was prepared for the next life. To which he replied: "One life at a time, please."

    This is on a gravestone in a cemetary in Key West, Florida, but it would have made a good deathbed quote: "I told you I was sick."

    As for what I will say on my deathbed, maybe I'll borrow some lyrics from singer Peggy Lee: "Is that all there is?"

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    Karl Marx when asked his last quote before death for posterity was reported as saying,"leave me, final words are for those that have not said enough."

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