From Edgar Allen Poe to Tupac, enjoy the biting and sometimes hilarious last words of some of history’s greatest figures.
Be they in the arts , political relation , or variation , in many ways historical icons seem to be , well , not human . That perhaps explains why their deaths come as that much more of a shock to the general public .
The renowned last words in the gallery above serve as an apt reminder that no one , not even the larger than life , can anticipate their final stage – or for that affair , know exactly what they will say upon their dying breath .
After reading these famous last words , check out our list ofinteresting quotesandhistory ’s better insults .
“I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.” - Frida Kahlo
“Love one another.” - George Harrison
“I’m bored.” - James Baldwin
“Where is my clock?” - Salvador Dalí
“Fuck you.” - Tupac Shakur
“Utter Nonsense” - Eleanor Roosevelet
“I’m in no pain. No pain. Don’t cry for me, Rahaman. I’m going to be with Allah. I made peace with God, I’m OK. Rahaman, how do I look?” - Muhammad Ali
“I don’t want to die.” - Amy Winehouse
“I’m going to the bathroom to read.” - Elvis Presley
“I want nothing but death.” - Jane Austen
“Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” - Karl Marx
“Don’t you dare ask God to help me.” - Joan Crawford
“I finally get to see Marilyn.” - Joe Dimaggio
“I must go in, the fog is rising.” - Emily Dickinson
“One last drink, please.” - Jack DanielFamous Last Words Of Jack Daniel
“I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
“You see, this is how you die.” - Coco Chanel
“Oh, you young people act like old men. You are no fun.” - Josephine Baker
“Don’t lift me.” - Robert F. Kennedy
“Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here.” - Nostradamus
“I’m going away tonight.” - James Brown
“Goodbye, kid. Hurry back.” - Humphrey Bogart
“One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.” - Alfred Hitchcock
“Goodnight, my kitten.” - Ernest Hemingway
“I’m bored with it all.” - Winston Churchill
“Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” - Che Guevara
“Is it not meningitis?” - Louisa May Alcott
“A dying man can do nothing easy.” - Benjamin Franklin
“You are wonderful.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
“Swing low, sweet chariot.” - Harriet Tubman
“I feel something that is not of this earth.” - Mozart
“This is no way to live!” - Groucho Marx
“Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.” - Edith Piaf
“God damn the whole friggin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta.” - W.C. Fields
“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” - Steve Jobs
“Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.” - Pancho Villa
“This isn’t Hamlet, you know. It’s not meant to go in my bloody ear.” - Laurence Olivier
“Lord help my poor soul.” - Edgar Allan Poe
“Remember, Honey, don’t forget what I told you. Put in my coffin a deck of cards, a mashie niblick, and a pretty blonde.” - Chico Marx
“Back in no time.” - William S. Burroughs
“Now is not the time for making new enemies.” - Voltaire, after being asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
