Death Bed Quotes

[NickAdams]

Maybe: "I can't go on, I'll go on."

[androcles]

"God bless you sister, may you give birth to a pope"

Brendan Behan, to a nun who was attempting to give him the last rights.

[sbmarti2]

I agree with the above. If Voltaire said what he said, it is the best deathbed quote I've ever heard.

[ballb]

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.

Not sure about Keats` last words. But his last letter to his friend Charles Brown [I think... Some time since I read this] contained the final sentence: "I do not know how to say goodbye to you even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow"

I also like the anonymous quote: " Don`t worry. They couldn`t hit a barn door from that dist..."

[Demian]

David Hume was on his deathbed and a friend came into the room and asked him, "Do you believe in an afterlife?"
"It's possible," he replied, "but not likely. If I take this piece of coal and throw it onto the fire it's possible that it won't burn-but unlikely. If there were an afterlife for all of us then new Universes would have to be created to preserve the trash from every age."

[s.santa]

Tiberio Claudio Nerone Domiziano Cesare, aka Nerone, Roman emperor, the one who burnt down half of Rome in 64 i think, killed himself (actually he ordered a slave to kill him) and dying he said "What an artist dies with me!"....

[B-Mental]

My Grandmother's last words to me..." Ohh Peter! You are here too! Everyone is here, and it is all so beautiful!"

My father's..."Don't you see this war coming!"
To which I replied, "The people of this country, will stand and amaze you. Everything will be fine."

My father looked to me and said, "Really?"
I said nonchalantly, "Of course." He passed that night in the arms of my mother, and I will never forget them. It was February, 2001.

[Etienne]

Gogol: "A ladder, quick! A ladder!"

[iorix]

i would say "there is no deity but Allah and Muhammed (peace be upon Him) is His prophet"

[Jane Jane]

Oh B, those words are all so dear. You have been through a lot. hugs.

The words of a dear little boy, very precious to me, just before he died. He very much wanted to live but he accepted the inevitable. He opened his eyes and then he said' which world am I in?" and then he went to sleep.

[dramasnot6]

I am so sorry for your loss B and Jane. Some powerful words.

[sparr0w]

"My chalk outline will stalk these grounds... just as they have stalked me".
-Cerpin Taxt (character in the story behind the concept album "De-Loused in the Comatorium" by the Mars Volta, based mostly on the life of Julio Venegas, who after waking up from a drug induced coma, committed suicide in 1996 by jumping off a bridge into oncoming traffic).
BTW, B, the first one, about your grandmother, made me cry. thank you so much for sharing.

[NikolaiI]

I don't know but I had a friend who killed himself with drugs. He was 16, and had one kid and one on the way. I remember he brought a gun to work one time, since people were harassing him. I can't think of him without grief. I think the last thing I said to him was something stupid- not bad, just stupid.

[_JadeRain_]

"Nothing, but death."
When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817

[sparr0w]

Wow, this was a great idea for a discussion... Id have to say the best I've heard so far would HAVE to be Voltaire (see RaatKiRanii on page 7)