Best Last Words Quotes
366 Last Words quotes by 297 unique authors
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first…
— Thomas Nagel
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We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
— Alexander the Great
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Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.
— Vespasian
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I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
— Pietro Perugino
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The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be…
— Anne Boleyn
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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
— Tycho Brahe
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
— Walter Raleigh
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All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
— Lope de Vega
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I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?
— Louis XIV
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Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
— Louis XIV
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
— Alexander Pope
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
— Jonathan Swift
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Give Dayrolles a chair.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
— Marie Antoinette
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Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.
— Horatio Nelson
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I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.
— William Pitt
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Cheer up, children, I am all right.
— Joseph Haydn
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I'm going now. My time has come.
— Daniel Boone
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A king should die standing.
— Louis XVIII of France
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the…
— John Quincy Adams
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
— Frederic Chopin
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