What better, more honest thoughts can there be than those one has just before his death?
I looked around over the internet, and found that many great people (and many not as great people, I’m sure, but there are no records for them…) used those last seconds to give the world one last fragment of what they lived for.
Often, as for a good quote, a single phrase can tell us much more about someone than a whole book full of technical information.
So I thought I’d make my search useful and post the most interesting last words I found around, plus a few links to the websites I found them on…
"Good night." Lord Byron
"What an irreparable loss!" Auguste Comte
"It's been a long time since I've had champagne."
"My dear Schur, you remember our first talk. You promised to help me when I could no longer carry on. It is only torture now, and it has no longer any sense."
"Open the second shutter so that more light may come in."
"Only one man ever understood me. And he really didn't understand me." Hegel
"LSD, 100 micrograms I.M." Aldous Huxley
"Kill me, or else you are a murderer!" Franz Kafka
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!" Karl Marx
"Lord help my poor soul." Edgar Allan Poe
"Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out." Rabelais
"If it had not been for these things I might live out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died unmarked, a failure, unknown. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice and for man's understanding of man." Nicola Sacco
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six." Tolstoj
Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies. Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
I can’t swear all these “last words” are original or last…, but there seem to be a certain consensus on most of them and many are quite probable, so I’ll leave it to the reader to believe or not.
Here are the links, have fun:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words
http://www.sanftleben.com/Last%20Words/lastwords-r-index.html
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