Henry Ward Beecher
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
John Brown
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
Thomas Jefferson--still surv
John Adams
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
Ludwig von Beethoven
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
Dominique Bouhours , French grammarian
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
Georges Danton, to his executioner
...the fog is rising
Emily Dickinson
The nourishment is palatable.
Millard Fillmore
More light!
Goethe
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m tier.(God will forgive me. It's his job.)
Heinrich Heine
This is the fourth?
Thomas Jefferson
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx to his housekeeper
Drink to me.
Pablo Picasso
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
General John B. Sedgwick, 1864
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Socrates
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Pancho Villa
I still live.
Daniel Webster
Go away...I'm alright.
H. G. Wells
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Here it is at last, the distinguished thing.
Henry James
What is the answer?
(Long silence.)
Very well, then, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
No, life is ugly enough to be looked at frankly, one last time.
Babi, french revolutionary, after being asked if he wanted a blindfold
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
