Last Words

Thomas Jefferson--still surv...

-- John Adams, dying words

Now comes the mystery.

-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887

I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.

-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words

I don't feel good.

-- Luther Burbank, dying words

Goodbye, Everybody!

-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage.

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

-- Georges Danton, to his executioner

...the fog is rising.

-- Emily Dickinson, dying words

The nourishment is palatable.

-- Millard Fillmore, dying words

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying

More light!

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words

Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son métier. Translation: God will forgive me. It's his job.

-- Heinrich Heine, dying words

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