Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

This list is a compilation of last words, or near-last words, that are worth remembering. You can learn more about the quotation or verify its source by clicking the Info button next to each one.

1. Che Guevara

Che Guevara
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Variant: I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man. I know you have come to kill me.

2. Dinah Craik

Dinah Craik
Oh, if I could live four weeks longer! but no matter, no matter!

3. Crowfoot

Crowfoot
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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4. Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

5. Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams
Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.

6. Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo
This is the battle between day and night... I see black light.

7. O. Henry

O. Henry
Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.

8. Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

9. Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

10. Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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11. Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova
Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian.

12. Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.

13. Huey P. Newton

You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

14. François Rabelais

François Rabelais
I am going to seek the great perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

15. Joachim von Ribbentrop

Joachim von Ribbentrop
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

16. Fritz Sauckel

Fritz Sauckel
I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

17. Pope Alexander VI

Pope Alexander VI
I am coming; I am coming. It is just. But wait a little.

18. Bartolomeo Vanzetti

I wish to say to you that I am innocent. I have never done a crime, some sins, but never any crime. I thank you for everything you have done for me. I am innocent of all crime, not only this one, but of all, all. I am an innocent man. I now wish to forgive some people for what they are doing to me.

19. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
Lord have mercy on my poor country that is so barbarously oppressed.

20. Pope Gregory VII

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

21. Georges Danton

Georges Danton
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

22. Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh
Last Words:
I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell.


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