Famous last words Quotes and Quotation

• "Is it the Fourth?"
  • Who: Thomas Jefferson
  • Jefferson died on July 4, 1826. This was the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the , which was written mostly by Thomas Jefferson.

• "Thomas Jefferson... still survives..."
  • Who: John Adams
  • John Adams died on July 4, 1826. Thomas Jefferson had died just a few hours earlier. Some depictions of Adams' final words indicate he might have not expressed the entire statement before dying, ie: "Thomas Jefferson… still survi— ".

• "Bugger Bognor."
  • Who:

• "Little Cousins, Called back."
  • Who: Emily Dickinson Letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, May 1886.
  • Source: Johnson, Thomas H., ed. Emily Dickinson Selected Letters. Cambridge: Belknap, 1971.

• "Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!"
  • Who:

• "I have a terrible headache."
  • Who:

• "I'm all right."
  • Who: H. G. Wells

• "Ich bin Heinrich Himmler."
  • Who:
  • Translation: "I'm Heinrich Himmler."

• "Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être."
  • Who: François Rabelais
  • Translation: "I am off in search of a great may-be."

• "Mehr Licht."
  • Who:
  • Translation: "More light."

• "Come my little one, and give me your hand."
  • Who: , Writer and Philosopher. He said this to his daughter Ottilie.

• "Minä elän."
  • Who:
  • Translation: "I'm alive." (or equally: "I live.")

• "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, ayez pitié de mon âme et de ce pauvre peuple"
  • Who: William the Silent
  • Translation: "My Lord, my Lord, have pity upon my soul and this poor people"

• "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."
  • Who: Oscar Wilde
  • Notes: Mr. Wilde said this in the Left Bank hotel where he died on November 30 1900, the wallpaper has since been removed and the room re-furnished in the style of one of Mr. Wilde's London flats.

• "These curtains are killing me, one of us has got to go."
  • Who: Oscar Wilde

• Puto deus fio
  • Translation: "[Dear me!] I think I'm turning into a God..."
  • Who: , Roman emperor
  • Source:
  • Notes: And indeed, Vespasian was deified after his death

• "Put out the light."
  • Theodore Roosevelt (January 6, 1919)

• "Stay back, this could hurt someone."
  • Who: , former treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Notes: When saying this, Dwyer was brandishing the handgun with which he shot himself in the head moments later.

• "Such is life."
  • Who:

• "Strike the tent."
  • General Robert E. Lee

• "Thank God I have done my duty."
  • Who: Admiral Nelson

• "The nourishment is palatable."
  • Who: Former US President
  • Notes: This was his response when his physician inquired about his food.

• "Turn up the lights —I don't want to go home in the dark."
  • Who: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), June 5, 1910

• "Tvert imot!"
  • Who: Henrik Ibsen
  • Translation: "On the contrary!"
  • Notes: This was his answer to the nurse who said she thought he looked better than usual. (Just before he died.

• "Wait a minute..."
  • Who:

• "Mehr nicht mehr."
  • Translation: "More not more."
  • Who: D. Granosalis

• "Hey Ram!..."
  • Translation: This may be translated as "Oh, God!", but is more equivalent to "Amen".
  • Who: Mahatma Gandhi

• "Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
  • Who: Karl Marx

• "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."
  • Who: General Stonewall Jackson

• "Was ist mit mir geschehen?"
  • Translation: "What happened with me?"
  • Who:

• "Es ist gar nichts!"
  • Translation: "It's nothing"
  • Who:

• "Dêem-me café, vou escrever!"
  • Translation: "Give me coffee, I´m going to write"
  • Who: Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet

• "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
  • Who: Francisco ("Pancho") Villa

• "Why not?"
  • Who: Timothy Leary

• "To the strongest!"
  • Who: Alexander the Great
  • In response to his generals asking the heirless Alexander which one of them would get control of the empire.

• "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
  • These were among the final words of General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S. Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying them, at the battle of Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864. They are often portrayed as if they were absolutely his last statement, the sentence often being presented as if he did not even finish it, and altered into the form: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...". Though this may be a slightly more striking version of events, it simply is not true. - (External link: Death of General John Sedgwick)

• "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? " (God, God, why have you foresaken me?)
• "I am thirsty."
• "It is finished." (In one account this is followed by "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.")
  • Who: Jesus Christ

• "Oh Lord, my God!"
  • Who: Joseph Smith, Jr crying out as he fell from a second story window of the jail while being shot by a mob both inside his room and outside of the jail. Some assert Smith's cry was a Masonic distress call for help as Smith and some of those within the mob which assassinated him were .

• "I can't sleep."
  • Who: J.M Barrie

• "Et tu, Brute?"
  • Translation: "And you, Brutus?"
  • Who:
  • Attributed to him by Shakespeare's famous play; his real last words are unknown, but may have been this, or "tu quoque, Brutus mea filium?" (You too, Brutus my son?"). Brutus, one of Caesar's assassins, was rumored to have been his bastard son.

• "Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying."
  • Who: Jean Cocteau

• "I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing."
  • Who: Stan Laurel. In fact what he really said was, "I wish I was skiing." The nurse who attended to him asked, "Oh, Mr Laurel, do you ski?" to which Stan replied, "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing." Then he died of a heart attack.

• "Boy, fetch my fiddle."
  • Who: Rob Roy Macgregor.

• "This is the last of Earth! I am content."
  • Who: John Quincy Adams, US President, 21 February 1848.

• "How were the receipts today at Madison Square garden?"
  • Who: P.T Barnum, Circus Entrepenuer

• "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
  • Who: Humphrey Bogart

• "Josephine. . . ."
  • Who: Napoleon Bonaparte

• "Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."
  • Who: Ludwig von Beethoven

• "Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."
  • Who: Lord George Byron

• "The Earth is suffocating. . .Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
  • Who: Frederic Chopin, Polish Composer and Pianist.

• "Dammit. . .Don't you dare ask God to help me."
  • Who: Joan Crawford. This comment was directed towards her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.

• "I'm bored with it all."
  • Who: Winston Churchill, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.

• "I have tried so hard to do the right."
  • Who: Grover Cleveland, US President, died 1908

• "That was a great game of golf, fellers."
  • Who: Bing Crosby. He was playing the whole 18 holes of golf (even when his doctor said to only do nine). 20 minutes after the game, he died of a heart attack.

• "My God, what's happened?"
  • Who: Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, 31 August 1997.

• "I am not the least afraid to die."
  • Who: Charles Dickens

• "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."
  • Who: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, as he faced his assassin, a soldier called Mario Teran.

• "I see black light."
  • Who: Victor Hugo

• " I should have drunk more Champagne."
  • Who: John-Maynard Keynes

• "I am just going out. I may be some time."
  • Who: Lawrence Oates

On Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition, while suffering from frostbite and sheltering from a blizzard, Oats felt he was reducing his companions' chances of survival and he ended his life by leaving the tent.

• "Put me back on the bloody bike."
  • Who: Tom Simpson
  • Note: Tom Simpson was a cyclist died on the Mont Ventoux, probably because of a combination of amphetamines, alcohol and the heat. Some say his last words were "Put me back on my bike."

• "It's all been rather lovely."
  • John Le Mesurier, before slipping into a final coma.

See also Epitaphs.

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