Famous Last Words

Et tu, Brute?
(And you too, Brutus?)

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar  

Rock n' Roll will be gone by June.

Variety Magazine, Early 1955  

Your time's a'comin'!

Headstone inscription  

I'm bored with it all.

Winston Churchill  

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Karl Marx to a housemaid  

I'd rather be fishing.

Jimmy Glass, before being executed  

You guys, everyone in here, we're basically just a bunch of backpackers. We are all just travelers, we are all just on a journey and we are heading for our home. But I think sometimes we lose sight of that and sometimes we start to focus so much on this world and we forget that God said in his Bible that this world is not our home. We are strangers and aliens in this place. THIS ISN'T IT, and someday this body of mine, it's going to die, it's going to pass away. And listen to this, this is the most amazing thing. We are forced to live out the rest of eternity based on the decisions you are making TODAY."

Kim Jones (killed at a church shooting, Sept. 15, 1999)  

It's not like I don't know how to clean my gun.

 

People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example, then it won't be long before the others follow. How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

Anne Frank  

Good Friends, for Jesus sake forebear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blest be the man who spares these stones
And cursed be the man who moves my bones

Shakespeare's epitaph  

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill  

Oh crap, I've wasted my life

Comic book store guy from "The Simpsons" in response to a neutron bomb from France about to hit him.  

I hope that none of my friends come to my funeral, because if that's the case, I'll have outlived them all.

Freddy Heineken, founder of Heineken Beer  

Be generous.

Dr. Greene's final advice to his daughter on ER  

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

Bertrand Russell  

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

 

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

 

So what, a few bullets to the torso and head. I think I'll go for a dip in the river.

The last words of Rasputin  

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Oscar Wilde  

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved.

Someone's tombstone  

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