Famous Last Words
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Francisco ("Pancho") Villa
I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast!
"Black Jack" Ketchum, notorious train robber
Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making
enemies. Voltaire (attributed), when asked by a priest
to renounce Satan
Get these fucking nuns away from me. Norman
Douglas
Don't worry...it's not loaded... Terry Kath,
rock musician in the band Chicago Transit Authority as he put
the gun he was cleaning to his head and pulled the trigger.
Is someone hurt? Robert F. Kennedy, to his wife
directly after he was shot and seconds before he fell into a
coma.
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
Groucho Marx
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't
said enough! Karl Marx, asked by his housekeeper what
his last words were
I have a terrific headache. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, who died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring. Richard
Feynman
Drink to me! Pablo Picasso
I have not told half of what I saw. Marco Polo,
Venetian traveller and writer
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It
is walking towards me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau
Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.
Joan Crawford. This comment was directed towards her
housekeeper who began to pray aloud.
Lord help my poor soul Edgar Allan Poe
Thank God. I'm tired of being the funniest person in
the room. Del Close, improvisor, teacher and comedian,
died 1999
I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's
better to burn out than to fade away. Peace, Love, Empathy.
Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain (in his suicide note), Lead
singer for American grunge band Nirvana, referencing a song by
Neil Young.
In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the
latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to
see another first -- attempted suicide. 30-year-old
anchorwoman Christine Chubbuck, who, on July 15, 1974, during
technical difficulties during a broadcast, said these words
on-air before producing a revolver and shooting herself in the
head. She was pronounced dead in hospital fourteen hours
later.
It's very beautiful over there. Thomas Edison
Now why did I do that? General William Erskine,
after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.
Don't worry, relax! Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime
Minister, to his security staff minutes before being killed by
a suicide bomber attack.
No! I didn't come here to make a speech. I came here to
die. Crawford Goldsby, aka Cherokee Bill, when asked
if he had anything to say before he was hanged.
I really need a therapist' Christopher Grace,
an actor who killed himself during a matinee performance of
Greece
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, you are only
going to kill a man. Che Guevara
LSD, 100 micrograms I.M. Aldous Huxley To his
wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.
Let me go to the Father's house Pope John Paul
II
I know not what tomorrow will bring. Fernando
Pessoa, Portuguese poet
Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. Mother
Teresa
Don't disturb my circles! Archimedes
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S.
Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after
saying it
Dying is easy, comedy is hard. George Bernard
Shaw
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to
pay the debt? Socrates
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
One or the other of us has to go. Oscar Wilde
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