mine would be: "I'll be back" :P
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mine would be: "I'll be back" :P
So it goes.
You're joking!?! Thats hilarious! Haha, I really had a laugh at that! Did some googling on General Sedgewick and every source seems to say the same. So it must be true, and in that case, thats one of lifes greater ironies!Quote:
And this one is almost too good to be true, but I've read it in every single "famous last words" collection. General Sedgewick during the Battle Of Spotsylvania, 1864 (American civil war):
"Don't worry, boys. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-"
The short story writer, H H Munro, commonly known as Saki, was killed by a sniper on the Somme, I think it was. His last words were apparently "turn that bloody light out".
I remember reading somewhere that the last words of Pancho Villa were "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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!'Quote:
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."Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachy
Pancho Villa's last words: "Tell them I said somthing good." (Probably apocryphal)
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."Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachy
Here's another one my sister thought up: "Remember guys, play 'Another One Bites the Dust' at my funeral reception."
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 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).
"That ham sure tastes funny"Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachy
A book I just processed, apropos of the current discussion:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...25475060&itm=1
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
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
I don't know who said it but: "And now for the big secret."
What would I say?...I would probably look my heirs in the eyes, presuminng I had anything left, and utter: " Would you mind putting a mirror under my nose to confirm my demise!"
(Friends applaud, the comedy is over)
Ludwig van Beethoven
i think i will say something like what this guy said
Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary leader:
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something…"
Azeglio Massino said " Ah louisa' you always arrive just as am leaving" I wonder who that will be for me.....
Benjamin Franklin's is great. His daughter told him to move into a more comfortable position on his bed, and he said "A dying man does nothing easy." and died.
αλλα γαρ ηδη ωρα απιεναι, εμοι μεν αποθανουμενω, υμιν δε βιωσομενοις: οποτεροι δε ημων ερχονται επι αμεινον πραγμα, αδηλον παντι πλην η τω θεω.
Sophocles' last words in Plato's Apology: "But now the hour is already upon us, for me to die and you all to keep on living. Which of us has got the better end of the deal is unknown to all except to god."
Pardon the lack of accents.
TCE
The American Civil War has more than it's share of famous death-bed quotes...a dying general (of pneumonia) said..."Come. Let us walk under the elm trees and rest awhile in the shade." :bawling:
The general to whom the previous poster refers was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Beethoven, who had waited a supply of Rhenish wine to help control a lung condition was informed that the medicine had arrived. "Too late," he is quoted as saying before turning to the wall for the last time.
Puccini, comatose for days, suddenly sat up and cried, "My poor Butterfly."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who died of childbed fever, had puppies licking her nipples to relieve the pressure (I'm not making this up). She expired during one of these "cures" with the words, "I am in Heaven."
A criminal (whose name escapes me), unrepentant at his execution, spoke to reporters. "And whatever you write, don't let my last word be "please"!"
My own last words -- I hope I have the wit to say: "The vast treasure is hidden in the - the ---- aaaaargh!"
You'd better get the timing right. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by musicman
Henrik Ibsen's sister: (to a visiting friend) Henrik is feeling much better today.
Henrik Ibsen: On the contrary! (dies)
The Red Baron: "Kaput." (The end.)
Ahhh, so simple!
H. D. Thoreu's last words: "Moose...indian..." (thinks to himself) Heh. That'll keep 'em guessing.
I hope no one's used this one already.
The last words of President Grover Cleveland always tug at my heartstrings:
"I have tried so hard to do what is right."
Doesn't it make you want to comfort him? "You did fine, old boy, you did fine."
"arriba, siempre arriba" (higher, ever higher)
— georges chavez, last words after crashing his bleriot airplane on his trailblazing flight over the alps, september 1910.
"life is an illness" - Socrates
"Beware italics" - from the Emily of New Moon series by L.M. Montgomery.
:D
I'd say something along the lines of "Rosebud", if only to confound my descendants.
Yes, I am that way.
I recently came into possession of a book known as, "Famous Last Words" it is an amazing book with great insight. Most of the quotes that were quoted here are in the book and many, many more!
Here are a few.
Leo Tolstoy- He had stormed off his estate after an arguement with his wife over giving away money to he poor. At 80 some odd years he was not up for the physical conditions and contracted pnuemonia and died at a stationmaster's house. According to that man his last words were.
"But the peasant...how do the peasants die?"
Marcus Aureliu- A Roman Emperor, and philospher. He spoke these last words as he was contemplating the rule his son would have as his the officer of the guardcame to his chambers. To ask for the days watch word and he made the below reply.
"Go to the rising sun; my sun is setting." ( Speaking of his sun, he was a philoper and Stoicist and thus would of never spoken of his actual son because that would of been to plain. )
And someone formerly posted that Jesus o Nazareth last words were Oh father why have though forsaken me. When actually h was on the cross and took one last breath of air and spoker these words.
"Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." How could you mess up Jesus' last words honestly.
Also, Socrates last words were actually "Crito, I owa a cok to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?" Because he was a very honorable man and could not bare the thought of dying in debt.
Che Guevara last words were as follows, "Shoot, you coward, you're going to killa man.
Another famous one was durng the Revolutionary war. I'm sure you have all heard this one. I love it so though. Nathan Hale as he was about to be executd after is request for a Bible and minister were denied.Were thus spoken, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Thanks I'll stop now.
P.S. My last words would be, "Were it possible, I would tell you the meaning of life. My dearest, you must understand though. That would take a lifetime."
Definately just made that up. Dead serious you can search that ****.I made it up.
Not a real person, but famous enough, "Thus with a kiss I die" from Romeo and Juliet.
My last words would probably be an inside joke with my friends from high school or something. Totally random that even I thought I'd forgotten, like "Charlie's Angels... Joey Sanchez?"
Probably one person would know what that meant and he'd tell everyone and then people could remember me as I was in high school and not as an old woman, if I end up dying at a ripe age.:sick:
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Stewart Alsop
here is another good one
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham