Death Bed Quotes

It always stirkes me as odd that people manage to say such profound things when they die. We were involved in a really bad car crash in december, and I thought that I was going to die... if I had (I'm so very grateful that I didn't), my last words would have just been 'Oh my god'. My last thought, however, would have been somewhat more interesting. I thought (remembering Artemis Fowl): I've got to stop clenching my teeth so hard, or they'll shatter when we crash

Do people think that these deathbed quotes are true?

I wonder what the Vtech shooter would have said. A hundred billion deaths are not enough to repay my suffering?

''The dark is coming''-George Bacovia, a Romanian decadent poet

Comedian, and known atheist W. C. Fields was faced with his death and began spending time reading the Bible. When asked by a friend why he had taken such an interest in Scripture he replied with, "I'm looking for loopholes, my friend. Looking for loopholes." I'm not sure if those were his last words... but, he was close enough to death and I found that damn funny.

"Let them bestow on every airth a limb;
Then open all my veins, that I may swim
To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake;
Then place my parboiled head upon a stake—
Scatter my ashes—strew them in the air;—
Lord! since thou know'st where all these atoms are,
I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust,
And confident thou'lt raise me with the just."


these lines r by a Scottish royalist general and poet; James Graham, these were written on the window of his jail the night before his execution.

You have to admire people's literary dedication! Even when they are about to die, they can sit down and compose poetry, worrying about meters and rhymes and whatnot...

maybe its a means of distraction from the inevitable???

My last words would be "I am sorry that I am not there to uplift the lifestyles of more people out there who donno what to do next."

I guess i won't know till the moment comes, though i rather like this one:

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
-Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

I laughed when i first read it. Wonder if he really did say it...

Funny:
I am contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said: "I drank what?"
(From an eighties movie with Val Kilmer)


Stirring:
"I go now to join my fathers in whose mighty company I shall not know feel ashamed."
Lord of the Rings


Mine:
Please don't let your last memory of me be that I lost control of my bodily functions

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

"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.

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

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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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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..."

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."

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!"....

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.

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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.

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

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)

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Originally Posted by _JadeRain_

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

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I never knew that...wow.

How about this one from Hamlet?

'To sleep, perchance to dream'....

That might be a nice final though....

"God has given man both penis and brain but not enough blood to run both of them at the same time."
a comment by BUSH senior on the affair of CLINTON with MONICA......

Bogart supposedly said "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis." I always thought that was a good one.

As for my own last words. I'd prefer them to be something enigmatic or enlightening. But more likely they will be something along the lines of "Oh, sh*t!"

"I have nothing, I owe a great deal and the rest I leave to the poor."
-Rabelais' testament

Louis XIV, king of France, said on is deathbed in 1715: Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?

And the husband of my grandmother's sister asked that they would give his nicest shoes to his son and put on his old ones, in the coffin. His wife said: 'But, they are too small for you.' 'No problem,' he said, 'I won't feel it anyway.'

hihi

Qualis artifex, pereo! (Such an artist, I die)
Nero

"Send me up." Kierkegaard

on my death bed i'd say....

"To die would be an awfully big adventure."

ya'll should know who said that. :D and while i say that i'll put on the biggest smile with an inner joy of the adventure to come glowing in my eyes.

Nightshade: There were two penguins standing on the ice. The one penguin said to the other, "You look like you're wearing a tuxedo." To which the other replied, "What makes you think I'm not?"

I am not sure of his last words, but I know that, on his gravestone, Spike Milligan wished for "I told you I was ill" to be inscribed so the church, thinking it was unsuitable but wanting to obey his final wish, wrote it in Gaelic.

"Now comes the mystery." - Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe & also my great, great, great Uncle.

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it."
-Lytton Strachey
"Is it not meningitis?"
-Louisa. m. alcott

"I wish I'd drunk more champagne." - John Maynard Keynes

Beam me up, Scotty.