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CELEBRITY DEATHS
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
WRITERS
(29 Entries)
1)
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)
"Now I'm oiled. Keep me from the rats."
2)
Brendan Behan (1923-1964)
"Bless you, Sister. May all your sons be bishops."
3)
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
"I lingered around them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering
among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through
the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for
the sleepers in that quiet earth."
4)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
"It's been a long time since I've had champagne."
5)
Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922)
"Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way."
6)
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
"Good-bye, everybody."
7)
Gabriele D'Annunzo (1863-1938)
"I'm bored. I'm bored."
8)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
"I am not the least afraid to die."
9)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
". . . the fog is rising"
10)
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
"Shakespeare, I come."
11)
Egon Friedell (Friedmann) (1878-1938)
"Watch out, please."
12)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749-1832)
"Open the second shutter so that more light may come in."
13)
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
"Good night."
14)
Georg Wilhelm Hegel(1770-1831)
"Only one man ever understood me. And he really didn't understand me."
15)
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
"Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper."
16)
O. Henry, (William Sidney Porter) (1862-1910)
"Don't turn down the light. I'm afraid to go home in the dark."
17)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
"Kill me, or else you are a murderer!"
18)
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
"Human life is limited; but I would like to live forever."
19)
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Why should I talk to you? I've just been talking to your boss."
20)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
"It has all been most interesting."
21)
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
"This hath not offended the king."
22)
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
"Lord help my poor soul."
23)
Francois Rabelais (1494?-1553)
"Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out."
24)
William Saroyan (1908-1981)
"Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be
made in my case. Now what?"
25)
Socrates (469-399 B.C.)
"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?"
26)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
"What is the question?"
27)
James Thurber (1894-1961)
"God bless . . .God damn."
28)
Count Leo (Nikolaevich) Tolstoy, (1828-1910)
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
29)
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Go away. I'm all right."