A few famous (& a few not-so-famous ) LAST WORDS ...
" No comment ." ~ Edward Abbey " No ... I have no final statement ." ~ Lawrence Brewer " I ' ve said all that I ' ve had to say ." ~ Bill Hicks " Last words are for fools who haven ' t already said enough ." ~ Karl Marx " What time is it ? Never mind ... That ' s not important ." ~ Janos Arany
" Pardon me , sir . I did not do it on purpose ." ~ Marie Antionette ( said to her executioner , after she inadvertently stepped on his foot while approaching the guillotine )
" Now I can cross the shifting sands ." ~ L . Frank Baum ( author of The Wizard of Oz )
" Not one statesman in a position of responsibility has dared to pursue the only course that holds out any promise of peace … Political passions , once they have been fanned into flame , always exact their victims ." ~ Albert Einstein
" All my possessions for a moment of time ." ~ Queen Elizabeth I " Either the wallpaper goes or I do ." ~ Oscar Wilde
" Father , Father ... Why have you forsaken me ?" ~ Jesus Christ ( quoting the first verse of the surprisingly uplifting 22nd Psalm in Mark 15:34 ; essentially saying " It ' s been an honor to serve you fully & completely , Dad .")
" Die , my dear ? Why , that ' s the very last thing I ' ll do !" ~ Grouch Marx
" Waiting are they ? Well ... Let them wait ." ~ Ethan Allen ( responding to an attending doctor , who had just offered the gentle words : " General , I fear the angels are waiting for you .")
" Take a step forward , lads . It ' ll be easier that way ." ~ Robert Childers ( said to his firing squad , during the Irish Civil War )
" I am about to die -- or I am going to die ; either expression is correct ." ~ Dominique Bouhours ( a French grammarian )
" It is good ." ~ Immanuel Kant ( ironically , his ultimate " moral imperative ") " God bless ... God damn ."~ James Thurber
" Now , now , my good man , this is no time for making enemies ." ~ Voltaire ( when asked by a priest to renounce Satan )
" Wait a minute ." ~ Pope Alexander VI
" I did not know that we had ever quarreled ." ~ Henry David Thoreau ( after his aunt had asked him if he had made his peace with God )
" I feel great ." ~ Pete Maravich ( said seconds before his death during a pickup game ) " It ' s all been rather lovely ." ~ John Le Mesurier , " I am about to take my last voyage ; a great leap in the dark ." ~ Thomas Hobbes
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