Death Bed Quotes

[xlxlauraxlx]

[QUOTE=Guinivere;646097]"Why, I did not know we had quarreled."

Thats funny, and also the one above is actually quite disturbing lol.

[quasimodo1]

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}

[Cat_Brenners]

These are very interesting. I can't think of any right now. I seem to learn alot on the forums though.
Cat

[Pewnut]

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.

[SecretUmbreon]

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!"

[dafydd manton]

humm... I was just wondering around and saw the Wilde's death bed quote "the wallpaper..." and I know the Nelson one "Kissmet Horatio" and all that and then there is Keats cant think of it but its quoted in the Fall of Hyperion ( the novel not the poem) so I was wondering f anyone new any other ones.

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!

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!"

[OhReally?]

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)

[ksotikoula]

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.

[kevinthediltz]

"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.

[dafydd manton]

I think my last words would be "There you are, I TOLD you I was unwell!!"

[jon1jt]

"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?

[miyako73]

mine:

quite... is neither a verb nor an adjective.

[Pryderi Agni]

"No man is happy until he is dead" - Aesychlus. Reckon he was on to something^_^.

[King Mob]

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.)

[Helga]

"No man is happy until he is dead" - Aesychlus. Reckon he was on to something^_^.

I like that one...