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."
"Remember, we are all in this alone." - Lilly Tomlin
"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.”
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Originally Posted by Mallorie
You've conferred me a very pleasing thought, thanks.
"I am perplexed." - Aleister Crowley
I have always hoped for my own to be "Yeah, so what?"
"Remember, we are all in this alone." - Lilly Tomlin
"Strike, man, strike!" Sir Walter Raleigh
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
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!!!"
"So sweet those words to me that I cannot be still and may it not annoy you if I seem somewhat lengthy in reply"-Dantes Inferno
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
Last edited by robertenem; 12-29-2010 at 02:14 AM.
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http://robertenem.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/news-of-the-salesman/ - The Salesman, a 13 part serial short by Robert eneM.
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.
I've always fancied my last words would be Mehr Leer,but once more, how could I possibly know...
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