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I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, Fly, you fools. What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.

George R. R. Martin

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Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure of life.

Charles Frohman

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Ah well, I suppose it has come to this! … Such is life!

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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

The tragedy of Korea is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air bombardment while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation. Of the nations of the world, Korea alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism. The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.
They have chosen to risk death rather than slavery. Their last words to me were: "Don't scuttle the Pacific!"

Douglas MacArthur

Twelve years to the day
he puts the blue worry bead into his mouth.
The trick is to swallow your good luck, too.
Last words to a daughter...
and a wink to remember him by.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Thomas Edison's last words were, "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I know it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

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John, don't let the awkward squad fire over me.

All men, rich and poor, must aid one another materially and personally. The rules vary in detail, but they all maintain the principle of universal mutual aid in the Muslim fraternity. This fraternity is absolute, and it comprises men of all colours and all races... all are the sons of Adam in the flesh and all carry in them spark of the Divine Light. Everyone should strive his best to see that this spark be not extinguished but rather developed to that full "Companionship-on-High" which was the vision expressed in the last words of the Prophet [Muhammad] on his deathbed, the vision of that blessed state which he saw clearly awaiting him.

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Forgive me, but I don't want to live anymore. The pain is too bad. There is no point in trying to prolong this agony.

Six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer, Keith gasped these words to his wife before he shot himself.

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Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day...

I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were 'I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground.

Stephen Levine (author)

I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of—Michael Angelo.

Joshua Reynolds

Last Words of Advice: If you pay your taxes and don't get into debt and go to bed early and never answer the telephone, no harm can befall you.

His last words to his chief of staff, David G. Swaim:

Oh Swaim, there is a pain here. Swaim, can't you stop this? Oh, oh, Swaim!

James A. Garfield

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God protect Germany!

Joachim von Ribbentrop

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

When the hour of reality approaches, the zero hour, wholeheartedly welcome death for the sake of God. Always be remembering God. Either end your life while praying, seconds before the target, or make your last words: There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger.

[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko

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Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.

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I am going to seek a great perhaps…Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.

François Rabelais

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What a great artist dies with me!

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: "A truck!"