Death Bed Quotes

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

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