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Famous last words



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  • "Bugger Bognor."
    • Who: King George V of the United Kingdom

  • "Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!"
    • Who: Lord Palmerston

  • "I have a terrible headache."
    • Who: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  • "I'm all right."
  • "Ich bin Heinrich Himmler."
    • Who: Heinrich Himmler
    • Translation: "I'm Heinrich Himmler."

  • "Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être."
  • "Mehr Licht."
    • Who: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    • Translation: "More light."

  • "Minä elän."
    • Who: Aleksis Kivi
    • Translation: "I'm alive." (or equally: "I live.")

  • "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, ayez pitié de mon âme et de ce pauvre peuple"
    • Who: William the Silent
    • Translation: "My Lord, my Lord, have pity upon my soul and this poor people"

  • "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."
    • Who: Oscar Wilde
    • Notes: Mr. Wilde said this in the Left Bank hotel where he died on November 30 1900, the wallpaper has since been removed and the room re-furnished in the style of one of Mr. Wilde's London flats.

  • Puto deus fio
    • Translation: "[Dear me!] I think I'm turning into a God..."
    • Who: Vespasian, Roman emperor
    • Source: Suetonius
    • Notes: And indeed, Vespasian was deified after his death

  • "Put out the light."
  • "Stay back, this could hurt someone."
    • Who: R. Budd Dwyer, former treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    • Notes: When saying this, Dwyer was brandishing the handgun with which he shot himself in the head moments later.

  • "Such is life."
    • Who: Ned Kelly

  • "Strike the Tent"
  • "Thank God I have done my duty"
    • Who:Admiral Nelson

  • "The nourishment is palatable."
    • Who: Former US President
    • Notes: This was his response when his physician inquired about his food.

  • "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
    • Who: General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the US Civil War

  • "Turn up the lights —I don't want to go home in the dark."
    • Who: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), June 5, 1910

  • "Tvärtemot!"
    • Who: Henrik Ibsen
    • Translation: "On the contrary!"
    • Notes: This was his answer to the nurse who said she thought he looked better than usual. (Just before he died.)

  • "Wait a minute..."
    • Who: Pope Alexander VI

  • "Mehr nicht mehr."
  • "Hey Ram!..."
    • Translation: This may be translated as "Oh, God!", but is more equivalent to "Amen".
    • Who: Mahatma Gandhi

  • "Why shouldn't I simply delete the stuff I never use, it's just taking up space?"
    • Who: From the Frequently Unasked Questions

  • "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees"
  • "Was ist mit mir geschehen?"
    • Translation: "What happened with me?"
    • Who: Elisabeth of Austria

  • "Es ist gar nichts!"
    • Translation: "It's nothing"
    • Who:Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

  • "Dêem-me café, vou escrever!"
    • Translation: "Give me coffee, I´m going to write"
    • Who:Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet

  • "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
  • "Why not"
  • "My god, my god, why have you forgotten me?"
  • "I am thirsty."
  • "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit."
  • "It is finished."
See also Epitaphs.



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