Famous Last Words
(Things people said on their death beds)

• Jane Austen...
  Nothing but death. — [When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.]
• P.T. Barnum...
  How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
• Henry Ward Beecher...
  Now comes the mystery.
• Ludwig Von Beethoven...
  "I shall hear in heaven!"
• Humphrey Bogart...
  "I should never have switched from Scotch to martinis."
• Winston Churchill...
  I'm bored with it all. —[he then slipped into a coma and died nine days later]
• Oliver Cromwell...
  My desire is to make what haste I may to be gone.
• Emily Dickinson...
  I must go in, the fog is rising.
• Thomas Edison...
  It is beautiful over there.
• Benjamin Franklin...
  A dying man can do nothing easy. — [Franklin said this when his daughter asked him to change his position in the bed as he lay dying.]
• O. Henry...
  "Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark."
• John Huss...
  "O holy simplicity!" — [last words before burning at the stake]
• Carl Jung...
  "Let's have a really good red wine tonight."
• Joseph P. Kennedy...
  I have no political ambition for myself or my children. — [J.P. Kennedy was the father of President John, Senator Robert, and Senator Ted Kennedy]
• Marie Antoinette...
  Monsieur, I beg your pardon. — [The French Queen said these words to her executioner after she had stepped on his foot.]
• Karl Marx...
  Go on, get out—last words are for fools who haven't said enough. — [Marx said this when his housekeeper urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.]
• William Palmer...
  Are you sure it's safe? — [The murderer William Palmer asked this when he stepped on the trap door of the gallows just before he was hanged.]
• Pancho Villa...
  Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
• Richard Wagner...
  "I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing."
• Woodrow Wilson...
  I am ready.
• Noah Webster...
  "I have struggled with many difficulties. Some I have been able to overcome and by some I have been overcome. I have made many mistakes but I love my country and have labored for the youth of my country, and I trust no precept of mine has taught any dear youth to sin."
• H.G. Wells...
  "Go away. I'm all right."
• Walt Whitman...
  "Oh dear, he's a good fellow."
• Oscar Wilde...
  "I am dying, as I have lived, beyond my means."
• Brigham Young...
  "Amen."
• John Ziska...
  "Make my skin into drum-heads for the Bohemian cause."
• Emile Zola...
  "I feel sick. My head is spliting. No, don't you see the dog is sick too. We are both ill. It must be something we have eaten. It will pass away. Let us not bother them."