"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès." (transl. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.")
- Marie Antoinette
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"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès." (transl. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.")
- Marie Antoinette
Edgar Allan Poe uttered the last words "Lord Help My Poor Soul."
I was just toying with the idea of saying on my deathbed: "I wish I had spent more time at work and less with *insert the name of the family member closest to my deathbed*" and then watch their horrified expressions.
My favorites:
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
-Oscar Wilde
"I'm so bored with it all."
-Winston Churchill
"This is no time to make new enemies."
-Voltaire (after being asked to forsake Satan)
I don't know the exact wording, but apparently when Groucho Marx died they found a note left behind in which he requested being buried on top of Marilyn Monroe.
I do wonder how many of these are actually true and which are just legends. I guess you shouldn't let a little think like the truth get in the way of a good quote though!
haha! What a grand idea!Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
Asclepius was the god of healing. He was explaining how death is no evil but a cure to this long illness called life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adras
This one's from a movie: "Time is but a door. Death is but a window. I'll be back!" -Vigo The Carpathian, Ghostbusters 2
Not so much a death bed quote but here is Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always *****y. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt.
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
(Executed by beheading)
-Sir Walter Raleigh
When I am on my death bed, I would probably say - "Finally, I can speak without any objections."
My last words might be: "The world dies with me."
According to Wiki, the last words of Louisa May Alcott were; "Is it not meningitis?"
It wasn't meningitis. She died from the after effects of mercury poisoning.
"Why, I did not know we had quarreled."
Henry David Thoreau, when asked by his aunt if he had made his peace with God.
"Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark."
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter 1862-1910), US story writer
"This is no time to make new enemies."
Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
"Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard. I could hang a dozen men while you're fooling around!" - Carl Panzram's last words.
An old peasant, trapped by a flash flood in his adobe house in a remote village in Romania, was found the following day stiff, huddled in a corner, with a serene look on his face and his middle finger pointed at the Heavens.
Very telling and deeply human.
[QUOTE=Guinivere;646097]"Why, I did not know we had quarreled."
Thats funny, and also the one above is actually quite disturbing lol.
In one account by Toklas, when Stein was being wheeled into the operating room for surgery on her stomach, she asked Toklas, "What is the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?" {Gertride Stein}
These are very interesting. I can't think of any right now. I seem to learn alot on the forums though.
Cat
Not sure if this counts but it's from Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
"Now I will destroy the whole world." ... It’s what Bokonists always say when they are about to commit suicide.
I like Oscar Wilde's quote about the wallpaper
"[I]My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.[I]"
It went something like that, anyway.
Anyway, if I were on my deathbed, I would probably say,"Darn! I can't think of anything to say!"
The popular opinion is that Horatio Nelson actually did say Kiss me, Hardy, and not Kismet. The latter was just a case of Victorian prurience. It was not unusual for men to greet each other with a kiss on the cheek, much as some Europeans do today. It's actually unlikely, since he had been at sea for long, that Nelson would have heard of the play "Kismet", even if he had any interest in the arts. Sadly, he was a complete Philistine!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Quite like Macchiavelli's who is supposed to have said when confronted by a priest, and asked if he renounced the Devil? "Renounce him? I hardly think this is the right time to antagonise him!"
I don't know if these have been used already (I didn't read the entire thread :P) :
'Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough'
-Karl Marx
'I knew it. I knew! Born in a hotel room - and goddamit - dying in a hotel room
-Eugene O'Neill
Shoot straight you bastards, and don't make a mess of it
Harry 'Breaker' Morant (executed by a firing squad)
Charlotte Bronte's last words were actually tragic. She was only 9 months married and 3 months pregnant and her symptoms were excessive vomiting and fever. After some time that she was exhausted from famine, she went delirious and the final time she recovered her senses, she heard her husband praying that "the Lord would spare her". She said: "I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us now. We have been so happy."
Archimedes' last words were "Do not disturb my circles" (Greek: μή μου τούς κύκλους τάραττε), a reference to the circles in the mathematical drawing that he was supposedly studying when disturbed by the Roman soldier.
"my service to satan on earth is done, now i shall forever serve him in hell"
Jon Nödtveidt (the lead singer of the black metal band Dissection) rumored to be his last words before commiting suicide. He was a devout satanist.
I think my last words would be "There you are, I TOLD you I was unwell!!"
"Thomas Jefferson still lives!"
last said words of John Adams
Fact is Jefferson died hours earlier, but they died the same day, July 4, 1826. Creepy, huh?
mine:
quite... is neither a verb nor an adjective.
"No man is happy until he is dead" - Aesychlus. Reckon he was on to something^_^.
It´s not really a death bed exclamation, but Hunter S Thompson´s suicide note is quite shocking:
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always *****y. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."
spine chilling, uh?
Oh, and i remembered another one. This being a death bed one.
Andrei Tarkovsky´s: "It is time for a new direction."
(sorry about the two posts. won´t happen again.)
I like that one...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pryderi Agni
Actually, I researched that earlier after seeing the John Adams miniseries and I could have swore the article said that Jefferson died later than Adams. I will check on that to be sure. It is quite uncanny, considering they had renewed their friendship in later years (earlier they had a falling out) and they wrote often to each other and became very close again.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1jt
I just know on Hitchcock's tombstone it reads: "I'm in on a plot."
I think that is hilarious.
That's strange - I thought Leo Tolstoy's last words were:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adras
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six" (refusing to return to the Orthodox Church which had once excommunicated him)
A few I like:
Francois Rabelais - "I am going to seek the Great Perhaps"
Alexandre Dumas (pere) - "I shall never know how it all comes out now"
George Bernard Shaw - "Sister, you are trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished"
Mine might be; "But I haven't had time to think of something memorable to say..."
Last words of Emily Dickinson " The fog is rising " .
My last words would have to be " My compliments to the chef ". On a serious note, my last words will be " I will miss you " !
that is awesome!!! thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ellipsis
These aren't W.C. Field's last words but supposedly they are on his tombstone: "All things considered I'd rather be in Philadelphia"
I'm quite prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared to meet me is another question.
"God will pardon me, it is His trade" Heinrich Heine.
"On the contrary" Henrik Ibsen, after the nurse said he seemed a little better.
"If this is dying, then I don't think much of it" Lytton Strachey.
My deathbed quote.
What are you waiting for, a quote?
I wasn't aware that my grandfather was a Campbell's soup fanatic ;), but apparently his last words were:
"Mmmm Mmmm good," after his wife kissed him.
If I have the time and presence of mind to say something, I might say:
"What was all the fuss?"
Hi,
Those were the last words of Charlotte Bronte.
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Spoken to her husband of 9 months, Rev. Arthur Nicholls.
~~ Charlotte Bronte, writer, d. March 31, 1855
MarkC