Death Bed Quotes

merh licht, more light" GOETHE

dying is incredibly boring ;I would hate to have to die twice! Richard feymann

I told you Iwas sick! Spike milligan

My deathbed quote would be my epitaph engraved in the tombstone or the ash container. Your Choice.
"Cafolini doesn't live here anylonger. Care to join?"

One I particularly like it this one,
"You who are deep in the ages, now, deep in the ages, you whom the world could not break or the years tame."
-Sara Teadeale

When asked if ever she wants something, Jane Austen said, "Nothing, but death."

When asked if he might consider a trip, that might improve his health, to the seaside resort of Bognor, King George V replied: "Bugger Bognor."

"Ow... ****!"
- Roald Dahl.

"I'll be back. Like Lord Jesus ... and The Terminator."

Me too, me too. I want to go with grandpa. ~ C A Cafolini, six years old when grandpa was hit by a train. I climbed into the coffin embracing the old man and felt at home. Later, when I became a Buddha, I would remember often that episode in the death bed.

"You become what you always were, just a really Big Fish."
"That, is the story of my life."

Big Fish

nice!

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Originally Posted by VERONIQUE

merh licht, more light" GOETHE

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There is some dispute about what Goethe was actually saying on his deathbed. "More light" certainly sounds like a very "philosophical" request from the dying philosopher. But it's also possible, and this requires a good knowledge of the German language and specifically of Goethe's dialect, that the old guy may have been complaining not about the lack of illumination so much as the uncomfortable way that his pillow was supporting his head...i.e. that he was not asking for "more light" but rather that he was complaining about how uncomfortably his head was lying on his deathbed pillow.

Dylan Thomas's poem seems appropriate "Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Do not go gentle in to that good night".

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Originally Posted by Nick Capozzoli

There is some dispute about what Goethe was actually saying on his deathbed. "More light" certainly sounds like a very "philosophical" request from the dying philosopher. But it's also possible, and this requires a good knowledge of the German language and specifically of Goethe's dialect, that the old guy may have been complaining not about the lack of illumination so much as the uncomfortable way that his pillow was supporting his head...i.e. that he was not asking for "more light" but rather that he was complaining about how uncomfortably his head was lying on his deathbed pillow.

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True. It certainly is unlikely it had much to do with light in any metaphorical sense. As Thomas Mann put it: "It is said that his last word before he closed his eyes in final slumber was: 'Let more light in!' It is not quite certain. But what he really said, his actual last word, a word against death and for life, is this:

The only thing that counts in the end is progress!"

Hazlitt's final words (corroborated by multiple sources, incidentally) are as fitting as they can be: "Well.. I've had a happy life!" I hope I can utter those words in my final breaths too!