Famous Last Words
It was provoking for me…so I thought you all might enjoy it too.
*Thanks to Kristen “Ace” Nevarez

Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa

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’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast!
- “Black Jack” Ketchum, notorious train robber

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 have tried so hard to do right.
- Grover Cleveland, US President, died 1908

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

I’m tired of fighting.
-Harry Houdini

I see black light.
- Victor Hugo

LSD, 100 micrograms I.M.
- Aldous Huxley To his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.

I’m bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.

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

I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.
- Frida Kahlo

Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool – good luck. (suicide note)
- George Sanders, Actor

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

I’m losing.
- Frank Sinatra

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

*Thanks to Kristen “Ace” Nevarez

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