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| This is the last of earth! I am content. | |
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The paper burns, but the words fly free. |
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(At the stake, when the Torah was also burned.) |
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Ethan Allen (US Revolutionary General) |
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| Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait. | |
| (In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you.") | |
| Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. | |
| (Executed by guillotine. Year 1793) | |
| Marie Antoinette | |
| Monsieur, I beg your pardon. | |
| (Spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot.) | |
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George Appel |
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| Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel. | |
| (Executed in electric chair in New York in 1928.) | |
| The ladies have to go first. Get in the lifeboat to please me. Goodbye, dearie. I'll see you later. | |
| (Spoken to his wife as he gave up his seat on a Titanic lifeboat) | |
| Am I dying or is this my birthday? | |
| Nothing, but death. | |
| (Her response to her sister Cassandra when asked: is there anything you want?) | |
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Max Baer (Boxer) |
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| Oh God, here I go..." | |
| How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden? | |
| Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy. | |
| John Barrymore | |
| Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. | |
| Now comes the mystery. | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | |
| Friends applaud, the comedy is finished. | |
| Humphrey Bogart | |
| I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. | |
| Anne Boleyn | |
| The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr. | |
| Josephine... | |
| Dominique Bouhours (French Grammarian) | |
| I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct. | |
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Karla Faye Tucker Brown |
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| I am going to be face to face with Jesus now. . . . I love you all very much. I will see you all when you get there. . . . I will wait for you. | |
| (Executed by injection, Texas in 1998) | |
| Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. | |
| Julius Caesar | |
| Et tu, Brute? | |
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Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort (French Writer) |
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| And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. | |
| (Suicide Note) | |
| I have been a most unconscionable time dying, but I beg you to excuse it. | |
| Robert Erskine Childers (Irish Patriot) | |
| Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way. | |
| (Executed by firing squad in 1922.) | |
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Chris Chubbuck (Newscaster) |
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| And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide. | |
| (Shot herself during a broadcast.) | |
| I'm bored with it all. | |
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Kurt Cobain (Musician) |
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| Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. | |
| (Suicide Note) | |
| Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow. | |
| Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me. | |
| (To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.) | |
| That was a great game of golf, fellers. | |
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Francis 'Two Gun' Crowley |
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| You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother. | |
| (Executed in electric chair in 1931.) | |
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| That guy's got to stop. . . . He'll see us. | |
| (Spoken as a car was about to turn into his lane in front of him) | |
| My God. What's happened? | |
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| I must go in, the fog is rising. | |
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Robert Drew |
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| Remember, the death penalty is murder. | |
| (Executed by injection, Texas in 1994.) | |
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Madame du Barry (Mistress of Louis XV) |
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| You are going to hurt me, please don't hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you! | |
| (Guillotined in 1793.) | |
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Jessica Dubroff |
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| Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain? | |
| (Seven year old pilot just before her plane crashed) | |
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| KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low. | |
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George Eastman (Inventor) |
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| To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? | |
| (Suicide Note) | |
| It is very beautiful over there. | |
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| I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me. | |
| All my possessions for a moment of time. | |
| Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life. | |
| (Last words on the gallows in 1886.) | |
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| I've never felt better. | |
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Marquis Thomas de Mahay Favras |
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I see that you have made three spelling mistakes. |
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| (Reading his death sentence as he was led to the scaffold.) | |
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Richard Feynman (Physicist) |
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| I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring. | |
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| God damn the whole friggin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta. | |
| (Spoken to his long time mistress Carlotta Marti.) | |
| I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it. | |
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| A dying man can do nothing easy. | |
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James French |
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| How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries. | |
| (Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma, Year 1966.) | |
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John Frank Garrett |
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| I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass. | |
| (Executed by injection, Texas. Year 1992) | |
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George Gipp |
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| Some day, when things look real tough for Notre Dame, ask the boys to go out there and win one for the Gipper. | |
| (Spoken to his Football Coach Knute Rockne. Rockne repeated this to the team 8 years later during halftime in a game against Army, Notre Dame went on to win) | |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Writer) |
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| When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. | |
| (Suicide Note) | |
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| Let's do it! | |
| (Executed by firing squad, Utah. Year 1977) | |
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Jimmy Glass |
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| I'd rather be fishing. | |
| (Executed in electric chair, Louisiana. Year 1987) | |
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Barbara Graham |
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| Good people are always so sure they're right. | |
| (Executed at San Quentin. Year 1955) | |
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Thomas J. Grasso |
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| I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. | |
| (Executed by injection, Oklahoma. Year 1995) | |
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| I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man. | |
| (When confronted by his assassin) | |
| It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief. | |
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| (Shot by British as a spy. Year 1776) | |
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Nathan Hale |
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| I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. | |
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Robert Alton Harris |
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| You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. | |
| (Executed in California's gas chamber. Year 1992) | |
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Heinrich Heine (Poet) |
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| God will pardon me, that's his line of work. | |
| Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark. | |
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Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark. |
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Lionel Herrera |
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| I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight. | |
| (Executed by injection, Texas. Year 1993) | |
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John Erik Hexum (Actor) |
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| Let's see if this will do it. | |
| (Accidental suicide as he shot himself with a blank-loaded pistol on the set of TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced a chunk of his skull into his brain; he died six days later.) | |
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| Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub. | |
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Thomas Hobbes (Writer) |
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| I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. | |
| I see black light. | |
| Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven. | |
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| Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. | |
| (Killed in error by his own troops during the Civil War) | |
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Jesus Christ |
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| Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. | |
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| Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames! | |
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| This is it! I'm going. I'm going. | |
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| Does nobody understand? | |
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Steven Judy |
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| I don't hold any grudges. This is my doing. Sorry it happened. | |
| (Executed in electric chair, Indiana. Year 1981) | |
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Terry Kath (Rock Musician) |
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| Don't worry, it's not loaded. | |
| (Suicide playing Russian roulette.) | |
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George Kelly |
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| My dear, before you kiss me good-bye, fix you hair. It's a mess. | |
| (Spoken to his niece as she leaned down to kiss him.) | |
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Ned Kelly |
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| Such is Life | |
| (Executed by hanging. Year 1880) | |
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| That's obvious. | |
| (Responding to the Texas Governor's wife's comment: "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you.") | |
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| Turn me. I am roasted on one side. | |
| (Spoken to his Roman executioners who had asked him if he had any last request while tied to a gridiron suspended over a bed of hot coals.) | |
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| Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks. | |
| (Often shortened to "Don't give up the ship.") | |
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Franz Leher (Composer) |
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| Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death. | |
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| Laughter. | |
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| Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal? | |
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| I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France. | |
| (Executed by guillotine. Year 1793) | |
| A King should die standing. | |
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Walter De La Mare (Writer) |
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| Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. | |
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| Let's cool it brothers . . . | |
| (When confronted by his 3 assassins) | |
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| No, but comfortable enough to die. | |
| (Responding to her son Joseph when he stated: 'Your Majesty cannot be comfortable like that.') | |
| Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this! | |
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| Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. | |
| (When asked by his housekeeper to tell her his last words) | |
| I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence! | |
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| Oh God! No! Help! Someone Help! | |
| It's all been very interesting. | |
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Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant (Australian National Hero) |
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| Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of it! | |
| (Executed by firing squad. Year 1902) | |
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| Today is a good day to die. I forgive all of you. I hope God does too. | |
| (Executed by injection, Texas. Year 1997) | |
| Shoot me in the chest! | |
| (To his executioners. Year 1945) | |
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Ramon Maria Navarez (Spanish Politician) |
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| I do not have to forgive my enemies. I have had them all shot. | |
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| This isn't Hamlet, you know, it's not meant to go into the bloody ear. | |
| (To his nurse, who spilt water over him while trying to moisten his lips.) | |
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| I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room. | |
| Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. | |
| (Executed by hanging Leavenworth, Kansas. Year 1930) | |
| Get my swan costume ready. | |
| I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven. | |
| (Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.) | |
| Lord help my poor soul. | |
| I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you. | |
| (Spoken to his wife.) | |
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| Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. | |
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| I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally. | |
| (Suicide Note) | |
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| I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor. | |
| Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out. | |
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| So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. | |
| (Executed by beheading. Year 1618) | |
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Sir Walter Raleigh |
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| Strike, man, strike! | |
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| So little done, so much to do. | |
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James Rodgers |
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| Why yes, a bullet proof vest. | |
| (His final request before facing the Firing Squad) | |
| Put out the light. | |
| I'm going over the valley | |
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| Put that bloody cigarette out. | |
| (Just before being killed by a sniper, 14 November 1916) | |
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George Sanders (Actor) |
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| Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck. | |
| (Suicide Note) | |
| Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what? | |
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