The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye
The story of love is hello and goodbye
Until we meet again
Jimi Hendrix last words in a poem found next to him on his deathbed.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye
The story of love is hello and goodbye
Until we meet again
Jimi Hendrix last words in a poem found next to him on his deathbed.
'!Me duele!'Originally Posted by Rachy
Oscar Wilde is easily one of my favorite people to quote, but his last words weren't so great. However, he was a deathbed convert so I'm willing to forgive.
James Dean (paraphrasing):
'Don't worry, he'll slow down before he reaches us.'
James Dean died in a vehicle wreck.
I want my last words to be "Barbara Streisand? I never would have guessed!!"
"Well, that's enough of that."
Pancho Villa's last words: "Tell them I said somthing good." (Probably apocryphal)
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
A friend of mine who died some 12 years ago to cancer at age 30, had the best death bed statement. His mother, who was present, said to him that it wasn't fair he should die at thirty.
He replied..." Better to have 30 good years than 60 ****ty ones"
His name was Paul Anthony Lennon and he is a saint now!
JD
"Enter dramatic music."
Here's another one my sister thought up: "Remember guys, play 'Another One Bites the Dust' at my funeral reception."
"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
What would I say on my deathbed?
Hamlet's final line is always a good one: "the rest is silence"
I also like Beethoven's supposed last action. On a dark and stormy night he held his fist clenched in the har as lighting struck and thunder sounded - then he fell.
If I were to make up my own........ "We are here at last..... funny"
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
I just read Chekhov's last words from yesterday's 'Today in Literature' website. Somewhat interesting, and at least worth mentioning. The last paragraph of the article:
Chekhov was a doctor; the custom among German and Russian doctors attending a colleague on his deathbed was to order champagne at the very end. Before it arrived, Chekhov sat up and said, in German, "I'm dying." When offered a glass, he drank, said "I haven't had champagne for a long time," lay down on his side and died within seconds.
The whole article: http://www.todayinliterature.com/sto..._Date=7/9/1904
I wonder, was that "I haven't had champagne for a long time" in German too? Were Chekhov's last words in German?
"I can't sleep." -J.M. Barrie's last words (simple and yet very powerful, in my opinion).
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"That ham sure tastes funny"
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
- Orwell
Read of my Shepherd
A book I just processed, apropos of the current discussion:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...25475060&itm=1
The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Lay in the hands of others; they were small
And could not hope for help and no help came...
-W.H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles"
Has anyone mentioned this yet?
"My God, my God why have you forsaken me?"
-Jesus of Nazareth
Unless of course you believe in his resurrection.
Ok, not death bed but supposedly Mark Twain's last written words:
“Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.”
My last words....
"Stay away from the cans! He hates these cans! Oh no! More Cans!"
originally from the jerk, but the words are so compelling. More mysterious than Rosebud, thats for sure.
I've always loved the the following deathbed quote...
"Damn, I zigged when I should've zagged." -anonymous WW2 vet
Last edited by B-Mental; 11-18-2006 at 04:15 AM.
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I found an interesting site with the last words of real people, and fictional characters. Interesting stuff.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...37/realidx.htm
Doc awakened very slowly and clumsily like a fat man getting out of a swimming pool. - John Steinbeck
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