Famous last words

• "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."
  • Who: H. G. Wells

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

• "Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être."
  • Who: François Rabelais
  • Translation: "I am off in search of a great may-be."

• "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."
  • Theodore Roosevelt (January 6, 1919)

• "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"
  • General Robert E. Lee

• "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."
  • Translation: "More not more."
  • Who: D. Granosalis

• "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"
  • Who: General Stonewall Jackson

• "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."
  • Who:Fransisco (Pancho) Villa

• "Why not"
  • Who:Timothy Leary

• "My god, my god, why have you forgotten me?"
• "I am thirsty."
• "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit."
• "It is finished."
  • Who: Jesus Christ