Famous last words, or a person’s dying words, can make them immortal – never mind leaving wisdom or a good laugh for the living.
When I started dyingwords.net I put these on a web page. They’re still there, but I thought it’d make a good blog post. If you have any to offer please comment and I’ll add them to the page. Here goes:
William Somerset Maugham – “Dying is a very dull and dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
Errol Flynn – “I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.”
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I – “All my possessions for a moment of time.”
Oscar Wilde – “Either that wallpaper goes or I do.”
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar – “Et tu, Brute?”
Che Guevara – “I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, Coward. You are only going to kill a man.”
Thomas Edison – “It is very beautiful over there.”
Prophet Mohammed – “Oh Allah. Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.”
Todd Beamer
Todd Beamer – “Let’s roll.”
Leonardo Da Vinci – “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”
Karl Marx – “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”
Jesus Christ – “It is finished. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”
Robert Alton Harris
Robert Alton Harris (California Gas Chamber, 1992) – “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.”
Francis ‘Two-Gun’ Crowley (Texas Electric Chair, 1931) – “You sons of bitches. Give my love to mother.”
Crowfoot (American Blackfoot Indian Orator) – “What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (Colonel, U.S. 7th Cavalry) – “Holy cow! Look…at all…the fuckin’…Indians.”