NationStates Jolt Archive

I think Karl Marx said it best;

"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!" -Karl Marx, to his housekeeper

Of course that arch murderer Guevara had a pithy statement for the CIA agent sent to neutralise him;

"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man."

"Thomas Jefferson still survives!" John Adams, even though earlier that day Jefferson had died. :(

"This thing will hurt someone." -R. Budd Dwyer, speaking about the gun he was about to put in his mouth.

"I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this." -Thomas J. Grasso, regarding his last meal before being put to death

"Rosebud." -Citizen Kane

Crappy last line, but still legendary,

General John Sedgwick

"What! what! men, dodging this way for single bullets! What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

Shortly followed by the poor generals death...

EDIT: They weren't quite his last words but still...

http://www.civilwarhome.com/sedgwickdeath.htm

Jefferson lives
Hm?

"Thomas Jefferson still survives!" John Adams, even though earlier that day Jefferson had died. :(
Damn you.

"Son, uuh."

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

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

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

"Thomas Jefferson still survives!" John Adams, even though earlier that day Jefferson had died. :(


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

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-"
General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania, 1864

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had promised eachother that they would die on exctly the same day. Jefferson died in the morning and then, later that same day, John Adams died. However, John Adams thought that Thomas Jefferson was still alive. It's great irony. Gotta love our Founding Fathers.

Thanks All,
The Turk :sniper:

"Hey Ram !" - Mahatma Gandhi.

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do"
~Oscar Wilde

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do"
~Oscar Wilde

I thought it was, "one of us has got to go."

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923
That's the one ;)

Kaput.
~Manfred von Richtofen (Red Baron)

I am mortally wounded, I think
~Stephen Decatur

"Go away. I'm alright"
~H G Wells.

"Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
~Lady Astor, upon waking briefly and seeing her family surrounding her bed.

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

"Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

"I'm bored with it all."
~Winston Churchill.

"Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."
~Lord George Byron

"Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow."
~Noel Coward.

"I am not the least afraid to die."
~Charles Darwin.

"I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it."
~Errol Flynn.

"All my possessions for a moment of time."
~Elizabeth I.

"Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?"
~Louis XIV.

"I see black light."
~Victor Hugo.

"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

And of course, the most famous last words in history:
"Et tu, Brute?"
~Gaius Julius Caesar

"I came here to die, not make a speech." US outlaw Crawford "Cherokee Bill" Goldsby, prior to being hanged.

When I'm on my deathbed I'll just swear my arse off.

SERIOUS
"Wait 'till I have finished my problem!"
-- Aristotle, famous Greek mathematician, before being murdered by a Roman soldier for refusing to stop drawing figures in the dust

"Now comes the mystery."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I am not the least afraid to die."
-- Charles Darwin

"It's very beautiful over there."
-- Thomas Edison

"Don't turn down the light. I'm afraid to go home in the dark."
--O. Henry

"Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!"
-- Joan of Arc

[laughter]
-- Abraham Licoln, watching the play "Our American Cousin"

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
-- Leon Tolstoy

FUNNY
"I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used."
-- Dominique Bouhours, famous French grammarian

"I see that you have made three spelling mistakes."
-- The Marquis de Favras, inspecting his death warrant on the way to the scaffold

"Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub."
-- Conrad Hilton, owner of Hilton Hotels

"And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide."
--Chris Hubbock, TV news anchor before his on-air suicide

"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked apple."
-- George Appel, murderer, before the electric chair

"How about this for a headline? French fries."
-- murderer James French, in the same situation

"Why yes, a bullet proof vest."
-- criminal James Rogers, when asked for his last request

"Born in a hotel room--and God damn it--died in a hotel room."
-- playwright Eugene O'Neill, dying in a hotel room

"Mommy."
-- The most common last word

"Tis a sharp medicine, but a sure cure for all ills." -Sir Walter Raleigh, speaking of the axe before his beheading acually technically, his last words were: "what are you afraid of, strike man, strike!" The axeman did not miss a second time.

"Oops"
-By many

"Oh my"
-James T. Kirk

"Oh my"
-James T. Kirk
"It was fun?"

My grandmother, who squeezed my hand and looked into my eyes. Her eyes said good bye.

Omg this thread made me cry. Goodnight all.

My uncle Dean's last words...
"Mary, take care of The King. He is a good boy, just not all there. Can you get Cherry for me? It's time to go." He was dying with cancer and just taken pills that would kill him in his sleep. He was gone before his sister Cherry entered the room.

Dylan Thomas - 'Eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's a record.'

Kaput.
~Manfred von Richtofen (Red Baron)

...how do they know that? (Or were you just kidding?)

"You feed the dog, I'll feed the fish."
-Christia McCaulliffe.

or..

"Hey, whats this button for?"
-Christia McCaullife.

Is that all you pansies got?

~Marv

"Oh come on, it's perfectly safe."

"There's nothing to worry about, it's asleep."

"Yes, I'm sure there are no Orcs in this sector."

"I wonder what this button does?"
-- A sampling of last words that would occur if D&D met The Matrix

<That ghost story about an evil spirit that knocks seven times on the door of each witness, then kills and dismembers them -- in effect creating an infinite loop and dooming everyone who reads the story>
-- The internet

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


Oh man, I still mourn Feynman. Come back!

Let's see what I can add to this list...

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

...yeah, those will probably be my last words too.

"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur."
-Marie Antoinette, after stepping on the toes of her executioner.

"Now I'm oiled. Keep me from the rats."
-Pietro Aretino

"On the contrary."
-Henrik Ibsen, playwrighter, after his maid said he was getting better to a guest.

"Kill me, or else you are a murderer!"
-Franz Kafka

"Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep or keen for me, let the enemy be warned of my death"
-Genghis Khan

"Who is it?"
-Billy the Kid

All from movies in my collection.

"Tell your sister you were right".

"Until the day...til all are one."

"What Happened to your mercy?"

"Hello Ground!"
and
"Oh, no, not again."

"You were the last! The LAST!"

and my favourite one is in my signature.

"Hello Ground!"
and
"Oh, no, not again."
Woo! THGTTG!

"It has all been very interesting" Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Those are the only ones I can remember...:(

"Is this to be the end of Zombie Shakespeare?"

I forgot the best:

"Die my dear, why that's the last thing I'll do." -Groucho Marx

"Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"

-Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant, moments before his execution.

The ones of Michel Manouchian, a resistance leader executed by the nazis were quite appropriate: "long live the german communist party !". In one sentence, showing that he's not fighting against "germans", that he supports communism, and praising the one thing the nazi hated the most ! :)

The ones of Guy Moquet, the youngest french resistant executed by the nazis, were great too: "you all who will stay, be worthy of us who will leave".

Both of their last letters were "nice" too...

Else, dunno. I don't know much "last words", expect the ones from some resistants.

Oh, I forgot the last words of Julius Rosenberg, who was offered to not be executed if he admitted his alliedged guilt: "We are innocent. That is the whole truth. To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life. For life thus purchased we could not life out in dignity."

"All my possessions for a moment of time." - Elizabeth I