Top 100 The Last Words Quotes
#1. His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you want this.
Karin Slaughter
#2. I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital ... He said, 'You have a gift ... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.
Dawn Fraser
#3. Shaya's chasing Nick with her shotgun - and I'm not even kidding. I believe the last words she said to him before we left were, 'Run, Alpha-boy.
Suzanne Wright
#4. The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.
J.K. Rowling
#5. I've changed my mind," through harsh, whistling breaths. "I think I'll make her into my pet in your stead." "Sahara!" A rage of sound. "I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!" They were the last words she heard before her mind went black.
Nalini Singh
#6. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.
Harry S. Truman
#7. I am just going outside and may be some time. Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
#8. Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
Alan Colmes
#9. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#10. i loved you once but not sure the second will get me back. We know our mistakes and know our past, but we don't know which to blame. these are the last words i will say before we continue our life. Find another lover before you try to love me back.
Anthony Castillo
#11. If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.
Charles Nelson Reilly
#12. "Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
Walter Scott
#13. Stripped of the diadem and purple, clothed in a vile habit, and loaded with chains, he was transported in a small boat to the Imperial galley of Heraclius, who reproached him with the crimes of his abominable reign. "Wilt thou govern better?" were the last words of the despair of Phocas.
Edward Gibbon
#14. Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
that in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core
as I cling to my memories of you ...
Xavier
#15. Mr. Kennedy, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you!" These were the last words President John F. Kennedy would ever hear. Leslie
Allen Childs
#16. Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
Ole Hallesby
#17. Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'
Emo Philips
#18. Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
George Clooney
#19. Look, it's true that I think there are a lot of people to blame for all of this, but I'm one of them." For a second, my mind flashed back to the party, to the last words I'd ever said to him. Fuck you, Hayden. Some kind of best friend I was. "And it's not my job to decide who should pay.
Michelle Falkoff
#20. The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.
Jennifer Walkup
#21. And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.
Slick Rick
#22. I think about how nobody knows how long they have in the world. And how we only get a certain number of words to say and share. I'd hate for the last words that come out of my mouth to be mean ones. I don't want to waste my words" -Emma
Natalie Lloyd
#23. That's how it'll go down. Those will be the last words of the last one left. I am human.
Rick Yancey
#24. I looked at his intelligent forehead, furrowed with premature wrinkles, produced probably by misfortune and sorrow. I tried to learn the secret of his life from the last words that escaped his lips.
Jules Verne
#25. THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
Markus Zusak
#26. Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.
Fabio Moon
#27. Friday, July 7, 1865
It is time then to write the last words that I shall ever write and close the book. I was born to die, as are we all. The end is there, held within the beginning.
Pamela Redford Russell
#28. Illium grinned, unrepentant. "Want to try again? I'll move extra slow - you are both so much older, after all." The last words were a conspiratorial whisper.
Galen glanced at Raphael. "How has he survived this long?"
"No one can catch him.
Nalini Singh
#29. It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In
Arthur Conan Doyle
#30. 'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.
Stanley Hauerwas
#31. She stared at the featureless iron and felt more keenly than ever the distance between them. Now. Now was the time to say what might be the last words he would ever hear from her.
"Fight," she said at last. "Win.
Suzannah Rowntree
#32. Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King. And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.
Jean Plaidy
#33. I once thought the three most important words in creation were 'whatever proved necessary,'" he said. "And now?" she gasped against his mouth. "Now I know I was wrong. The three most important words in creation are 'I love you
Gena Showalter
#34. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#35. Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.
Thomas Jackson
#36. I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story!
Howard Waldrop
#37. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.
Lindsey Leavitt
#38. He put his forehead against hers.
"Alannah, my heart is yours." He said softly.
"And yet, I must hand it over to someone else for the keeping." Her last words falling to a strained whisper.
B.C. Morin
#39. Her smile and voice suggested the kind of excitement that comes when the first words in a long, silent relationship are spoken at last - a subtle excitement secretly incorporating into this one moment everything that has happened until now.
Thomas Mann
#40. Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
#42. It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain
Sharp words like daggers placed it here
To fill with hurt
In filling it grew heavy and drug me down
For to not feel is not to live
Until I rest at last in dirt
The worst of you got the best of me ...
Neil Leckman
#43. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.
Jeaniene Frost
#46. When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.
H.L. Mencken
#47. No matter how many words we get, there's always going to be the last one, and one word is never enough.
Amy Harmon
#48. I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
John Newton
#49. 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
#50. This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
Joseph Butler
#51. Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.
Dejan Stojanovic
#52. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.
Marianne Williamson
#53. Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#54. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
Sylvia Plath
#55. 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
#56. Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.
Kurt Cobain
#57. The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words ... to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.
Anthony W. Ivins
#58. I recall his somber eyes during that last, private conversation. His eyes and his words, far too wise for a boy of ten: only time will tell, Lia.
In the end, I suppose it will.
Michelle Zink
#60. The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'
Eknath Easwaran
#61. Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.
Samuel Shem
#62. My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
Henry Louis Gates
#63. 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
#64. No, she never recovered, madam. She had a stroke at the end. Last words she ever said was - very slow, "Look in - the - Look - in - " And then she was gone.
Katherine Mansfield
#65. Here's to the health of my beloved Critias !
Theramenes
#66. It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.
Lee Smolin
#67. 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
#68. What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Antonio Porchia
#69. Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Plato
#70. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look him in the face and hear his last words,
George R R Martin
#71. And wished with all her power to wish anything, that the woman would simply continue her last words and say, "Are you really so glad to have met me? Then why can't we see each other again? Why can't we even have lunch together today?" Her voice was so casual, and she might have said it so easily.
Patricia Highsmith
#72. We've never done it that way before" is often cited as the seven last words of a dying church.
Sam Rainer
#73. And at her words, I release her. Because the last thing I ever wanted was to hurt her.
Jay McLean
#74. Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.
Anna Kamienska
#75. Religious men often think about death, and Abelard had given some thought to his last words. "I told you so" had not been on the list. The
Max Gladstone
#76. I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
#78. Last night was ... " His words trailed off. "It was the best night of
my existence.
J.L. Sheppard
#79. When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
Diana Gabaldon
#80. But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.
John Green
#81. Your inclination appears to be much as
it was last night."
Damen found himself saying, "You talk
the same in bed," and the words came
out sounding like he felt: helplessly
charmed.
C.S. Pacat
#82. I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there be?- to describe what it feels like to become words, to feel your life encoded, and laid out in black ink on white paper. All my love and hatred, melted into words. It was like the End of the World.
Clive Barker
#83. Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
Giordano Bruno
#84. Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.
Paul Auster
#85. Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#86. When Sean sees that I didn't hear him, he leans forward to my ear again. I can't think of the last time I was so close to another person. I can feel the rise and fall of his chest when he breathes. His words are warm in my
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. Jesus Christ, you're soaking wet. Seriously, have you been going around with all this between your legs? I can feel it through fucking flannel, honey. Oh my God, I can feel it through flannel, he said, the first words almost steady and sure and the last ones like nothing she'd ever heard before.
Charlotte Stein
#88. Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.
Linwood Barclay
#89. [re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is about working with fully human beings who will be reembodied at the last, after the model of the Messiah.
N. T. Wright
#90. Open your eyes at last and see ... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures
Oskar Kokoschka
#91. Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last
poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me
only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.
Mahmoud Darwish
#92. But that's the thing about lasts. No one ever plans those last moments. Last words. Last actions.
S.D. Hendrickson
#93. The truth is simple Alex; it doesn't need a lot of words. Besides, people love chocolate, their shoes, last week's big hit. I'm yours, I always will be.
Diane Adams
#94. From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
Eyvind Johnson
#95. Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
George Steiner
#96. The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!
John Gaver
#97. And now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.
Paul Auster
#98. Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#99. The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
Alan Alda
#100. Old man, everyone!! And you.. Luffy. Even though I've been good for nothing my whole life, even though I have the blood of a demon within me ... You guys still loved me! Thank you so much!! - Ace's last words to his family and friends.
Eiichiro Oda
