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FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Famous last words, or a person’s dying words, can make them immortal – never mind leaving wisdom or a good laugh for the living.

Famous Last WordsWhen 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

Queen Elizabeth I – “All my possessions for a moment of time.”

Oscar Wilde – “Either that wallpaper goes or I do.”

 

Julius Caesar

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

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

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

George Armstrong Custer (Colonel, U.S. 7th Cavalry) – “Holy cow! Look…at all…the fuckin’…Indians.”

What have you got to add?

I’m dying to hear your words.