Writers
last words. When you’ve dedicated your life to words, it’s important to go out
eloquently.
1. Ernest
Hemingway: “Goodnight my kitten.” Spoken to his wife before he killed himself.
2. Jane
Austen: “I want nothing but death.” In response to her sister, Cassandra, who
was asking her if she wanted anything.
3. J.M
Barrie: “I can’t sleep.”
4. L.
Frank Baum: “Now I can cross the shifting sands.”
5. Edgar
Allan Poe: “Lord help my poor soul.”
6. Thomas
Hobbes: “I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap into the dark,”
7. Alfred
Jarry: “I am dying…please, bring me a toothpick.”
8. Hunter
S. Thompson: “Relax — this won’t hurt.”
9. Henrik
Ibsen: “On the contrary!”
10. Anton
Chekhov: “I haven’t had champagne for a long time.”
11. Mark
Twain: “Good bye. If we meet—” Spoken to his daughter Clara.
12. Louisa
May Alcott: “Is it not meningitis?” Alcott did not have meningitis, though she
believed it to be so. She died from mercury poison.
13. Jean
Cocteau: “Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking
towards me, without hurrying.”
14. Washington
Irving: “I have to set my pillows one more night, when will this end already?”
15. Leo
Tolstoy: “But the peasants…how do the peasants die?”
16. Hans
Christian Andersen: “Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more.”
17. Charles
Dickens: “On the ground!” He suffered a stroke outside his home and was asking
to be laid on the ground.
18. H.G.
Wells: “Go away! I’m all right.” He didn’t know he was dying.
19. Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe: “More light.”
20. W.C.
Fields: “Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you,
Carlotta!” “Carlotta” was Carlotta Monti, actress and his mistress.
21. Voltaire:
“Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.” When asked by a
priest to renounce Satan.
22. Dylan
Thomas: “I’ve had 18 straight whiskies…I think that’s the record.”
23. George
Bernard Shaw: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”
24. Henry
David Thoreau: “Moose…Indian.”
25. James
Joyce: “Does nobody understand?”
26. Oscar
Wilde: “Either the wallpaper goes, or I do.”
27. Bob
Hope: “Surprise me.” He was responding to his wife asking where he wanted to be
buried.
28. Roald
Dahl’s last words are commonly believed to be “you know, I’m not frightened.
It’s just that I will miss you all so much!” which are the perfect last words.
But, after he appeared to fall unconscious, a nurse injected him with morphine
to ease his passing. His actual last words were a whispered “ow, fuck”
29. Salvador
Dali hoped his last words would be “I do not believe in my death,” but instead,
they were actually, “Where is my clock?”
30. Emily
Dickinson: “I must go in, the fog is rising.”
