Codeine...bourbon.
Tallulah Bankhead
How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
P. T. Barnum
I can't sleep.
J. M. Barrie
Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
Ethel Barrymore
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Thomas Becket
You are going to hurt me, please don't hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you!
Jeanne Becu
Now comes the mystery.
Henry Ward Beecher
Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Humphrey Bogart
Josephine...
Napoléon Bonaparte
I am about to - or I am going to - die: either expression is correct.
Dominique Bouhours
Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
Johannes Brahms
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Charlotte Brontë
Beautiful.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
George Byron
I am not the least afraid to die.
Charles Darwin
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Walter de la Mare
That guy's got to stop ... he'll see us.
James Dean
They butchered me back there, I was in a lot of pain. They cut me in the groin; they cut
me in the leg. I was bleeding profusely. This is not an execution, it is murder.
Bennie Demps
I must go in, the fog is rising.
Emily Dickinson
I finally get to see Marilyn.
Referring to ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.
Joe DiMaggio
I'm going home, babe.
James Allen Red Dog
Remember, the death penalty is murder.
Robert Drew
Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?
Jessica Dubroff
Adieu, mes amis! Je vais la gloire!
Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!
Isadora Duncan
KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low.
Last radio communique before her disappearance.
Amelia Earhart
Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as
men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Last letter to her husband before her last flight.
Amelia Earhart
It is very beautiful over there.
Thomas Edison
No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.
Edward VII
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I
Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life.
George Engel
I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die today every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
Indira Gandhi
I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my everloving ass, because I'm innocent.
Johnny Garrett
Mother, I'm going to get my things and get out of this house. Father hates me and I'm never coming back.
Marvin Gaye
Let's do it!
Gary Gilmore
I'd rather be fishing.
Jimmy Glass
Come my little one, and give me your hand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good people are always so sure they're right.
Barbara Graham
I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
Thomas J. Grasso
Let's do it, man. Lock and load. Ain't life a [mother fucker]?
G. W. Green
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Attributed.
Nathan Hale
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.
Actual.
Nathan Hale
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
Robert Alton Harris
God will pardon me, that's his line of work.
Heinrich Heine
Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry
All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
Henry VIII
I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society
nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight.
Lionel Herrera
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
I see black light.
Victor Hugo
I bear witness that there is no god but God and I testify that Mohammed is the
Messenger of God. I bear witness that there is no god but God and I testify that Mohammed...
Saddam Hussein is suddenly interrupted without finishing his prayer with the opening of the trap door.
Saddam Hussein
Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
Andrew Jackson
Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
Stonewall Jackson
Is it the Fourth?
Thomas Jefferson
Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.
Last words on October 5, 2011 as reported by his sister Mona Simpson in her eulogy.
Steve Jobs
Does nobody understand?
James Joyce
I don't hold no grudges. This is my doing. I'm sorry it happened.
Steven Judy
I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo
Such is life.
Ned Kelly
If someone is going to kill me, they will kill me.
Arriving in Dallas in 1963.
John F. Kennedy
Is everyone else all right?
Whispered to his wife.
Robert F. Kennedy
Make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord.
Play it real pretty.
Disagreement over the exact wording of this comment to musician Ben Branch.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I love you, mom.
Clarence Lackey
Why not? Yeah.
Timothy Leary
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
Franz Lehár
Yes, I am.
While sitting in a police car on the way to a hospital, after officers asked him if he were John Lennon.
John Lennon
I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
They won't think anything about it.
After Mary Todd Lincoln asked him what the patrons of Ford's Theater might think of two old people holding hands.
Abraham Lincoln
Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?
Louis XIV
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death;
and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
Louis XVI
A King should die standing.
Louis XVIII
I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms.
Louise
My dear Melinee, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We are going to be executed today at
3:00. This is happening to me like an accident in my life; I don't believe it, but I nevertheless know that I will never see you again.
Missak Manouchian
Money can't buy life.
Bob Marley
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx
I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is
about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence!
Maximilian
Nothing matters. Nothing matters.
Louis B. Mayer
I'm in the hands of Jesus.
Tammy Faye Messner
Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
Marilyn Monroe
It's all been very interesting.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of it!
Breaker Morant
Today is a good day to die. I forgive all of you. I hope God does too.
Mario Benjamin Murphy
Shoot me in the chest!
Benito Mussolini
I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
Eugene O'Neill
Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.
Carl Panzram
Good-bye ... why am I hemorrhaging?
Boris Pasternak
Amen.
John Paul II
Get my swan costume ready.
Anna Pavlova
I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
Pietro Perugino
Drink to me!
Possible last words A.
Pablo Picasso
Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
Possible last words B.
Pablo Picasso
Lord help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
James K. Polk
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
Alexander Pope
I hope I haven't bored you.
Possible last words A. Ending his last press conference.
Elvis Presley
Okay, I won't.
Possible last words B. Last words spoken to Ginger Alden (his fiancee), who told him on the way to the bathroom not to fall asleep in there.
Elvis Presley
I am just going. Have me decently buried; and don't let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand?
Possible last words A.
George Washington
It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
Possible last words B.
George Washington
'Tis well, 'Tis well.
Possible last words C.
George Washington
Go away. I'm all right.
H. G. Wells
Leave me alone. I'm fine.
Barry White
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Oscar Wilde
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of
those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.
Virginia Woolf
Brothers, brothers, please! This is a house of peace.
Possible last words A.
Malcolm X
Let's cool it brothers...
Possible last words B.
Malcolm X
Now, now, brothers, break it up, be cool, be calm.
Possible last words C.
Malcolm X
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