Quotes about last-words

John Newton -

I am still in the land of the dying I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

Thomas Edison Guerrero Barbosa -

Its very beautiful over there. I dont know where there is, but I believe its somewhere, and I hope its beautiful.

Karen Ann Wirtz - A Game of Truths

He felt weighted down by guilt and regret for what might have been his last words to all of them.

Daniel Klein - Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.

Craig R. Key - A Sight Unseen

A man of your valor deserves not another breath.

Mary E. Pearson - The Heart of Betrayal

We already had three steps behind us."Hold on, Lia," I whispered. Hold on for me.

Mattéo Bonnet -

Kiss someone like it's the last one you give.

D.A. Paul - Boost

Everyone kept asking me to stay, so I did.

Édith Piaf -

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Ludwig van Beethoven -

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is

Aaron Allston -

Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving...' --Alema Rar

Charlotte Eriksson - Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte

Richard Brautigan -

Messy, isn't it?

Agatha Christie - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Why didn't they ask the Evans?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

Kevin Pietersen -

This could be addictive.

Leonardo da Vinci -

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Oliver Sacks - Gratitude

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

D.H. Lawrence -

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

Elizabeth Browning -

If God shall choose I shall love thee but better after death

Alan Moore - Vol. 2

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

Sarah Ockler - Twenty Boy Summer

How can you say it was all a lie?” I ask, just above a whisper. “Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way always. ‘We have to look out for her.’ That was the last thing he said to me alone. And then he died. What was I supposed to do, Frank? Tell me?

William Shakespeare -

The rest is silence.

François Rabelais -

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Karl Marx -

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

Plotinus -

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Winston S. Churchill -

I'm bored with it all. - Last Words

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -

Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?

John Green - Looking for Alaska

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

John Green - Looking for Alaska

Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dying. Alaska's favorite was playwright Eugene O'Neill: "Born in a hotel room, and--God damn it--died in a hotel room." Even car-accident victims sometimes have time for last words. Princess Diana said, "Oh God. What's happened?" Movie star James Dean sa

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.

John Green - Looking for Alaska

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

Hannah Senesh - the First Complete Edition

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.

Douglas Adams - and Thanks for All the Fish

They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a 'w,' the second an 'e.' Then there was a gap. An 'a' followed, then a 'p,' an 'o,' and an 'l.'Marvin paused for a rest.After a few moments they resumed and let him see the 'o,' the 'g,' the 'i,' the 'z,' and the 'e.'The next two words were 'for' and 'the.' The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another rest before the could

Henry Ward Beecher -

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

Isaac Asimov - I. Asimov

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

John Green - Looking for Alaska

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

Simón Bolívar -

Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

Victor Hugo -

I see black light (his last words)

Meriwether Lewis -

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.

John Green - Looking for Alaska

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

Dorianne Laux - Smoke

How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Laura Anderson Kurk - Perfect Glass

But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you’re seventeen, there’s time enough for that, but there’s not. There’s no time at all.”I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. “You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous.

Akiba Ben Joseph -

The paper burns, but the words fly free.

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

Eugenio Prados - The long funeral of Mr. White

Good God! I'm out of tobacco.

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

Giordano Bruno -

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the grief that I have known. I still dream of them. I still dream of my dead children.I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. Imiss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling sha

Khaled Hosseini -

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the grief that I have known. I still dream of them. I still dream of my dead children.I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling sh

Khaled Hosseini -

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the grief that I have known. I still dream of them. I still dream of my dead children.I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling sh

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