My favourite last words were by French dramatist Alfred Jarry: "Bring me a toothpick." He was an absurdist writer who definitely lived his life as his art. Fascinating.
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My favourite last words were by French dramatist Alfred Jarry: "Bring me a toothpick." He was an absurdist writer who definitely lived his life as his art. Fascinating.
Posthumously, my epitaph will read: C A Cafolini does not longer live here. Care to join?
A priest suggested to Voltaire that he reject the devil before death. He was in his deathbed: "My man, this is not a time to make enemies."
I enjoy the laughter here. It is really comforting to think that sometimes the person in the deathbed can summon up a sense of humor.
“I’ll just leaving my temporary home to be on the place where I truly belong”
To ease the pain a little bit to the people you’re going to left. [chuckle]:ihih:
I am here to pass away. If anyone wants to keep me company raise your hand.
The horror! The horror!!
-Kurtz
"Heart of Darkness" by Joesph Conrad
:)
Well, it's not quite a deathbed quote, however the doctors had given me less than a 50/50 chance of surviving my quintuple heart-bypass operation (It became three operations in a day).
As I was taken from IC to the OR there were a few, holdin' back tears, folk on hand.
I tried my best to think of something to say before going through the IC's doors.
The best I could do was a great, big, ole
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !"
I REALLY meant it, too, and wanted that to be the last words, under the urgency of being wheeled away, moi uttered.
That was 4˝ years ago.
One person told me "I wanted to LOL when you said "Wheee" but some would not have appreciated it," though I would've.
Oh yeah, on the way down the hall a nurse came up and asked, with great puzzlement in her voice, "Did he say WHEEEEE?!?!"
Stay on groovin' safari,
Tor
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Is this actually true? I'd never heard of it before.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
I've always found this one morbidly amusing....
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distan...." (spoken by a Civil War general, who was then shot)
merh licht, more light" GOETHE
dying is incredibly boring ;I would hate to have to die twice! Richard feymann
I told you Iwas sick! Spike milligan
My deathbed quote would be my epitaph engraved in the tombstone or the ash container. Your Choice.
"Cafolini doesn't live here anylonger. Care to join?"
One I particularly like it this one,
"You who are deep in the ages, now, deep in the ages, you whom the world could not break or the years tame."
-Sara Teadeale
When asked if ever she wants something, Jane Austen said, "Nothing, but death."
When asked if he might consider a trip, that might improve his health, to the seaside resort of Bognor, King George V replied: "Bugger Bognor."
"Ow... ****!"
- Roald Dahl.
"I'll be back. Like Lord Jesus ... and The Terminator."
Me too, me too. I want to go with grandpa. ~ C A Cafolini, six years old when grandpa was hit by a train. I climbed into the coffin embracing the old man and felt at home. Later, when I became a Buddha, I would remember often that episode in the death bed.
"You become what you always were, just a really Big Fish."
"That, is the story of my life."
Big Fish
nice!
There is some dispute about what Goethe was actually saying on his deathbed. "More light" certainly sounds like a very "philosophical" request from the dying philosopher. But it's also possible, and this requires a good knowledge of the German language and specifically of Goethe's dialect, that the old guy may have been complaining not about the lack of illumination so much as the uncomfortable way that his pillow was supporting his head...i.e. that he was not asking for "more light" but rather that he was complaining about how uncomfortably his head was lying on his deathbed pillow.Quote:
Originally Posted by VERONIQUE
Dylan Thomas's poem seems appropriate "Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Do not go gentle in to that good night".
True. It certainly is unlikely it had much to do with light in any metaphorical sense. As Thomas Mann put it: "It is said that his last word before he closed his eyes in final slumber was: 'Let more light in!' It is not quite certain. But what he really said, his actual last word, a word against death and for life, is this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Capozzoli
The only thing that counts in the end is progress!"
Hazlitt's final words (corroborated by multiple sources, incidentally) are as fitting as they can be: "Well.. I've had a happy life!" I hope I can utter those words in my final breaths too!
How about this "My time is over"..
That’s exactly what I think!