"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès." (transl. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.")
- Marie Antoinette
"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès." (transl. "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.")
- Marie Antoinette
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
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)
Hell is other people.
~Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit"
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!
When the tupelo
Goes poop-a-lo
I'll come back to youp-a-lo
- Kilgore Trout
haha! What a grand idea!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.
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
"So-Crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing." "That's us, dude!"- Bill and Ted
"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
Feed the Hungry!
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
Carving lucky charms out of these hard luck bones
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.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
"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.
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