Death Bed Quotes

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

My grandfather when dying was asked "Are you comfortable?", replied "I make a living!"

The infamous bushranger Ned Kelly at his trial when hearing the death sentence from Redmond Barry the judge. "I will see you there when I go."
Kelly's final words on the scaffold: "Such is life."
Redmond Barry died twelve days later.

My grandfather's last words were, "Don't worry Armie (my grandmother), I'll be here in the morning."

Werner von Braun's last words were the Lord's Prayer. According to the story when he said, "Amen", he breathed his last.

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Originally Posted by Daoloth

I'd say something along the lines of "Rosebud", if only to confound my descendants.
Yes, I am that way.

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ha ha - Basco


(if you're a Sienfeld fan)

Comic Book Guy on the Simpsons had a funny one - he wasn't on his deathbed, but he was having a heart attack:

"Stabbing pain in my chest. Arm going numb. Can't go on.. describing symptoms.. much longer"

There was a great one from a Garth Ennis comic book. But it requires tons of set-up, and you might have had to read the whole series to truly get it.

In one of the earlier mini-series, Kev and some of his other military buddies are sent to get this sick, super-powered old guy from a basement. When they arrive Kev finds the old guy standing around naked, with an orange up his ***. As they arrest him, the orange comes out and is on the floor. Then Kev's army buddy walks in and starts eating the orange before Kev can say anything.

In a later installment of the mini-series, years later Kev is at his buddy's cabin. His buddy has long since retired - but they get in a tight spot, and his buddy ends up getting fatally shot. As he lays in Kev's arms, dying, his last words are "The orange was up the bloke's *** wasn't it?"

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it."
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), British writer

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

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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.

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One that comes to mine is Christina Rossetti, from the poem, Remember.

It may not be Keats, or Wilde..but here goes..

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

To her elder sister.

"Take courage Charlotte, take courage!"

Not sure if this one has been posted yet.
"I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man"
Che Guevara
The exact wording isn't really known (it was most likely said in Spanish) but the gist of it is agreed upon.
In my mind this puts Che as a real life action hero.

Oscar wilde:

"It's the wallpaper or me, one of us has to go."


I liked the quote so much that I incorporated it in the novel I've been writing.

"He put it succinctly when he said, “Petty minds ruin geniuses.” He was not talking about himself, of course. He meant Oscar Wilde, the subject of his first short experimental film, “Death in a Wallpapered Room,” where an exotic brown Wilde pulled the wallpapers in his retro hotel suite piece by piece and ate them every day until he died from syphilis, diarrhea, morphine, and asbestos poisoning. “All wallpapers are gone. I’m ready to go.” was the film’s ending. I wondered if it was autobiographical. Sir Prot’s fixation on death and dying, besides feces, vomit, and urine and certainly, sex and nudity, read almost an obsession in all his writings."

This I found in a wonderful book of famous quotes.

"It would really be more than the English could stand if another century began and I were still alive. I am dying as I have lived...beyond my means".

Most of life is too complex to sum up in last words. However, I know what I DON'T want: To say something that isn't really me--a funny bon mot to be passed down generation to generation, like: "Get off the oxygen hose." or "Here's the remote! I was laying on it all this time!"

D. H.Lawrence.

I think it's time for morphine.

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure"