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Last Words Of Famous People, Criminals At Execution And Suicide Notes by killjoy(m): 10:36pm On Nov 16, 2014
Here is the creepy list starting with last words of famous people. enjoy.

Thomas Jefferson--still survives...
~~ John Adams, US President, d. July 4, 1826
(Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same
day.)

This is the last of earth! I am content.
~~ John Quincy Adams, US President, d.
February 21, 1848

See in what peace a Christian can die.
~~ Joseph Addison, writer, d. June 17, 1719

Is it not meningitis?
~~ Louisa M. Alcott, writer, d. 1888

Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let
'em wait.
In response to an attending doctor who
attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I
fear the angels are waiting for you."
~~ Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general,
d. 1789

Am I dying or is this my birthday?
When she woke briefly during her last illness and
found all her family around her bedside.
~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964

Nothing, but death.
When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there
was anything she wanted.
~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817

Codeine . . . bourbon.
~~ Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12,
1968

How were the receipts today at Madison Square
Garden?
~~ P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891

I can't sleep.
~~ James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be
happy. I know I'm happy.
~~ Ethel Barrymore, actress, d. June 18, 1959

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No
Barrymore would allow such a conventional
thing to happen to him.
~~ John Barrymore, actor, d. May 29, 1942

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood
the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
~~ Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury,
d.1170

Now comes the mystery.
~~ Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8,
1887
In her new book The Most Famous Man in
America, author Debby Applegate writes on
page 466 that Beecher's last words in fact
were, "You were saying that I could not
recover." Ms. Applegate has not been able to
confirm the traditional version of Beecher's
last words.

Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March
26, 1827

I should never have switched from Scotch to
Martinis.
~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

Josephine...
~~ Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, May 5,
1821

I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either
expression is correct.
~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d.
1702

Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
~~ Johannes Brahms, composer, d. April 3, 1897

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not
separate us, we have been so happy.
Spoken to her husband of 9 months, Rev. Arthur
Nicholls.
~~ Charlotte Bronte, writer, d. March 31, 1855

Beautiful.
In reply to her husband who had asked how she
felt.
~~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, d. June
28, 1861

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
~~ Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824

Et tu, Brute?
Assassinated.
~~ Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, d. 44 BC

I am still alive!
Stabbed to death by his own guards - (as
reported by Roman historian Tacitus)
~~ Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, d.41 AD

Don't let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne)
starve.
~~ Charles II, King of England and Scotland, d.
1685

Ay Jesus.
~~ Charles V, King of France, d. 1380

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a
long time.
~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1,
1904

The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them
cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
Dying of tuberculosis.
~~ Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16,
1849

I'm bored with it all.
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24,
1965

This time it will be a long one.
~~ Georges Clemenceau, French premier, d. 1929

I have tried so hard to do the right.
~~ Grover Cleveland, US President, d. 1908

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
~~ Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959

Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
~~ Noel Coward, writer, d. 1973

Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray
aloud.
~~ Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977

That was a great game of golf, fellers.
~~ Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d.
October 14, 1977

I am not the least afraid to die.
~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882

My God. What's happened?
~~ Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, d. August
31, 1997

I must go in, the fog is rising.
~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?
Minutes before her plane crashed.
~~ Jessica Dubroff, seven-year-old pilot, d. 1996

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire.
(Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)
~~ Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927

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.
KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but
cannot see you. Gas is running low.
Last radio communiqué before her
disappearance.
~~ Amelia Earhart, d. 1937

It is very beautiful over there.
~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18,
1931

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work
to the end.
~~ Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603

I've never felt better.
~~ Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12,
1939

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
~~ Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed
every minute of it.
~~ Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959

A dying man can do nothing easy.
~~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d. April 17,
1790

Come my little one, and give me your hand.
Spoken to his daughter, Ottilie.
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, d.
March 22, 1832

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward,
you are only going to kill a man.
Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian
soldier.
~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing
comedy.
When asked if he thought dying was tough.
~~ Edmund Gwenn, actor, d. September 6, 1959

God will pardon me, that's his line of work.
~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856

Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in
the dark.
~~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d.
June 4, 1910

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
~~ Henry VIII, King of England, d. 1547

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap
in the dark.
~~ Thomas Hobbes, writer, d. 1679

I see black light.
~~ Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all
meet in heaven.
~~ Andrew Jackson, US President, d. 1845

Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade
of the trees.
Killed in error by his own troops at the battle of
Chancellorsville during the US Civil War.
~~ General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863

Is it the Fourth?
~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4,
1826

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
From Luke 23:46
~~ Jesus Christ

Does nobody understand?
~~ James Joyce, writer, d. 1941

Why not? Yeah.
~~ Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996

Now I have finished with all earthly business,
and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now
comes death.
~~ Franz Leher, composer, d. October 24, 1948

A King should die standing.
~~ Louis XVIII, King of France, d. 1824

Why do you weep. Did you think I was
immortal?
~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715

I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move
my arms.
~~ Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
~~ Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956

Let's cool it brothers . . .
Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16
times.
~~ Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who
haven't said enough.
To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his
last words so she could write them down for
posterity.
~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883

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, Emperor of Mexico, (Archduke
Maximilian of Austria), d. June 11, 1867

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.
~~ Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29,
1957

It's all been very interesting.
~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and
God damn it - died in a hotel room.
~~ Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953

Good-bye . . . why am I hemorrhaging?
~~ Boris Pasternak, writer, d. 1959

Get my swan costume ready.
~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931

I am curious to see what happens in the next
world to one who dies unshriven.
Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as
he lay dying.
~~ Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523

Lord help my poor soul.
~~ Edgar Allan Poe, writer, d. October 7, 1849

I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
Spoken to his wife.
~~ James K. Polk, US President, d. 1849

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
~~ Alexander Pope, writer, d. May 30, 1744

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to
the poor.
~~ François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553

I have a terrific headache.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President, d.
1945

Put out the light.
~~ Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . .
Killed in battle during US Civil War.
~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander,
d. 1864.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old
curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going
to die.
Spoken to his nurse.
~~ George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d.
November 2, 1950

I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think
that's the record . . .
~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953

Moose . . . Indian . . .
~~ Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862

God bless... God damn.
~~ James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
~~ Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, d. 1940

Don't worry chief, it will be alright.
~~ Rudolph Valentino, actor, d. August 23, 1926

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.
~~ Vespasian, Roman Emperor, d. 79 AD

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said
something.
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923

I have offended God and mankind because my
work did not reach the quality it should have.
~~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519

I die hard but am not afraid to go.
~~ George Washington, US President, d.
December 14, 1799

Go away. I'm all right.
~~ H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946

Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

I am ready.
~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last
finale! Great! The show looks good, the show
looks good!
~~ Florenz Ziegfeld, showman, d. July 22, 1932
Re: Last Words Of Famous People, Criminals At Execution And Suicide Notes by Nobody: 12:21am On Nov 17, 2014
Nice write up. Last statement indeed

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