Top 41 Dying Last Words Quotes
#1. As he bent closer, he realized they were words
words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach.
KILL THE CHILD
Holly Black
#3. It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
John Green
#6. Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
Noel Coward
#7. I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.
Christian Boltanski
#8. Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.
D.H. Lawrence
#11. I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
Leon Trotsky
#13. Just take me with you. Please.
I cant.
Please, Papa.
I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
Cormac McCarthy
#14. Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
John Green
#16. Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
Nancy Astor
#18. I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.
Alfred Jarry
#21. I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were 'I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)
Stephen Levine
#24. I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and you looked at me looking at her with eyes that had never known anything else, and for a moment there I swear we saw each other with a clarity that nothing can alter, not time, not heartbreak, not death.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#25. Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]
Isaac Asimov
#26. Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution.
Bethany Chase
#27. Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
Andrew Jackson
#28. Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that ... is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever.
Kim Du-han
#29. When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.
Fafore
#30. We've never done it that way before" is often cited as the seven last words of a dying church.
Sam Rainer
#32. I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
John Newton
#34. Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Charlotte Bronte
#36. During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
Franz Lehar
#40. I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#41. Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
Ethel Barrymore
