Famous Last Words



Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose (Marie Antoinette)
As she approached the guillotine, convicted of treason and about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.

Applaud, my friends, the comedy is finished. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

No. (Alexander Graham Bell)
While Alexander Graham Bell was dying, his deaf wife whispered to him, “Don’t leave me.” Bell responded by signing the word, “No”.

I’m going away tonight…. (James Brown)
ames Brown uttered his last words minutes before his death, and then he took three, long quiet breaths and closed his eyes.

I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends. (Ted Bundy)
Those were Bundy’s last words before being executed in the electric chair.

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. (Lord Byron)

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

Money can’t buy life. (Bob Marley)

Drink to me ! (Pablo Picasso)

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. (Mother Teresa)
Sister Nirmala Joshi recalled, “Just hours before her death, Mother Teresa spoke about the Little Flower, St. Therese. She has just been declared a ‘Doctor of the Church’ by Pope John Paul II. Her last words are: “Can you imagine, for doing little things with great love, the Church is making her a Doctor, like St. Augustine and the big St. Teresa! It is just like Jesus said in the Gospel to the one who was seated in the lowest place: “Friend, come up higher.” St. Therese’s last words were quite similar, “Oh, I love him; my God, I love you”.

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. (Leonardo da Vinci)

I am just going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be into a vault in less than two days after I am dead. Do you understand me? [”Yes,” replied Tobias Lear, his secretary.] ‘Tis well. I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. (George Washington)

It’s very beautiful over there. (Thomas Edison)
Spoken to his wife as he lapsed in and out of consciousness. There is debate over if he meant the afterlife, or the view from his window.

know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man (Che Guevara.)

I swear that there is no God but God and Muhammad (Saddam Hussein)
Saddam’s last words at gallows when the trap door was released. He was hanged before he could finish the prayer.

No, you certainly can’t. (John F. Kennedy)
This was said in reply to Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a nice welcome, Mr. President.