These are the last words of one of my favourite poets:
"Thank God, it has come!" - John Keats
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These are the last words of one of my favourite poets:
"Thank God, it has come!" - John Keats
Marie Antoinette's were to say sorry to her executioner after she stepped on his foot.
"I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct."
-Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian (this one is my favorite)
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"
-P. T. Barnum
"I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."
-Eugene O'Neill
"And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide."
- Christine Chubbock (an anchorwoman), and then she shot herself on live tv (gruesome, eh?)
"Cool it, brothers..."
-Malcolm X, to the guys that shot him.
For mine, I don't know. I guess I'd probably want to screw with people. I'll say something like "You guys! You guys! I see the light! Oh no... who would've thought that mormonism was the way to go?"
That, or it'll be something like "hey, you guys want to play lawn darts?" or "who wants to bet that I can get it up to 160 km/h?"
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature-
Voltaire
"I kist thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss"-Othello
''I'd rather be in Philadelphia''
~~~ WC Fields.
Also used on his tombstone.
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.
ha ha - BascoQuote:
Originally Posted by Daoloth
(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."
One that comes to mine is Christina Rossetti, from the poem, Remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
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"
I died briefly while being prepped for surgery, let me tell you all, if death is coming as a shock to you, there is no room or time to think of clever things, or at least my little mind could not.
had I stayed dead my last words would have been "Please cover up my tits" (i had been stripped down for surgery)
needless to say I am quite glad not to have died.
I wonder if anyone has ever mentioned Lytton Strachey (critic and biographer).
"If this is dying, then I don't think much of it."
My maternal grandmother's last words were,
"Get these damned teeth out of my mouth, they're killing me."
"Some are born posthumously"
-Friedrich Nietzsche (and never was a quote so appropriate for the person who said it...)
Someone to be honest:
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
Delaware Prefab Homes
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mallorie
You've conferred me a very pleasing thought, thanks. :yesnod:
"I am perplexed." - Aleister Crowley
I have always hoped for my own to be "Yeah, so what?"
"Strike, man, strike!" Sir Walter Raleigh
my great granddad said to me - was not his last words, but were his last few days....
'wisdom is of no consequence unless it is imparted'
he followed that up with....
'the prostate is the ball and chain around a man's nuts, live long enough and it will F&*( you up'...
"Get the HELL out of my room!!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachy
My personal favorite:
William Burrough's last words, scrawled in a journal shortly before his death in 1997: “Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”
What my last words will be:
"I don't want you all to get upset and worried every time I take a nap. You'll know when you smell ****."
EDIT: Hope you guys don't mind, but I compiled some of these quotes and reposted them on my blog in hopes that some of my readers would contribute, as well, and they've posted some amusing ones of their own. If you're interested, check it out: http://robertenem.wordpress.com/2010...otes/#comments
Considering that my first language isn't language at all, a snippet from English history that always amuses me was Charles I's beheading, where it was suggested to him that after the chopper holds up his severed scone and looks him in the eye, he should wink at him.
Charles' head did so...
Imagine the presence of mind to sustain something like that!
My deathbed quote would be, "I think my liver is diseased."
Someone already mentioned Goethe's here, but the fact that his "Mehr Licht!" (More Light!) refered to the curtains letting light in rather than to some metaphysical-religious perception has always sort of annoyed me.
But how do you know... Perhaps the clues lie in his treatise on color.Quote:
Originally Posted by aboad
I've always fancied my last words would be Mehr Leer,but once more, how could I possibly know...
I heard this one yesterday, watching the Bob Hope Desert Pro/Am Golf tournament. As Hope, age 100, lay dying someone asked him, "Where would you like to be buried?"
"Surprise me," said Hope.
My death bed quote would be:
''God, forgive me..''
Chill out! I got this...
I should like to say:
'Ninth ring please, this heat is killing me.'
or
'I'm tired of dreaming, time to sleep'
But I'm sure I'll think of something else, and fail to say it anyway.
and to quote...
Niccolo Machiavelli said:
"I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles"
Isaac Newton said:
"I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
And James Thurber said:
"God bless... God damn."
'Ben,i'll always be with you'.