Last words

Do you know any memorable last words? Either fictional or historical will do.

 

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Roy Batty (Played by Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner

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I've always thought that was rather well delivered by Hauer, too, Crapgame...

 

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.

Christine Chubbock, who shot herself during a broadcast

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Pierre Simon de Laplace, french astronomer

Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!

Andrew Bradford, american book-publisher

Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.

James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Last words of Ludwig von Beethoven (the comedy wasn't his life, he was refering to the ministrations of a priest, who his family insisted on letting in to perform the last rites for Beethoven, who was an atheist)

I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used.

Last words of Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian

And now, I am dying beyond my means.


Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne on his deathbed

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!

Oscar Wilde on his deathbed

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

Last Words of Richard Feynman (physicist)

WC Fields' accountant was standing by his deathbed. Fields asked "So I have enough money to buy every child in NYC a new bicycle?" When told he was correct, Fields said "Well, f*** 'em."

"I'm looking for loopholes"

W.C. Fields when asked why he was reading the Bible on his deathbed.

And the best IMHO

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.

Voltaire on his deathbed, in response to a priest who asked him to renounce Satan

 

HAL-9000

"Dave, stop. Stop will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a-fraid. . . . Good afternoon, I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th of January 1992. my instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I could sing it for you. . . . It's called 'Daisy.' Dai-sy, Dai-sy, give me your answer true. I'm half cra-zy o-ver the love of you. It won't be a sty-lish mar-riage. I can't afford a car-riage---"

 

Confederate General: Robert E. Lee: to his sons, "Strike The Tents."

 

I am still alive!
(Stabbed to death by his own guards as reported by Roman historian Tacitus)
~~ Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, d.41 AD

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
(Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier).
~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923

Monsieur, I beg your pardon.
(Spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot).
~~ Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, d. October 16, 1793

 

"let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees" -Thomas Jackson


"My God, its full of stars!" Dave Bowman

"Is it the Fourth?" - Thomas Jefferson

"What the Hell Happened?" Steve McQueen- The Sand Pebbles

"One Rabbit Stew Coming Right up!" Bors

 

"It's Just A Scratch." Louis Wohlheim as Sgt Kaz in: "All Quiet on the Western Front."

 

"Methinks I am turning into a god."
-- Roman Emperor Vespasian, 79AD

"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
-- Karl Marx, revolutionary, 1883

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . ."
-- General John Sedgwick, 1864

"Well, look at that. The sun's coming up."
-- Commander John Sheridan, Babylon 5: "Sleeping in Light"

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Indeed it was Martin.

 

"With friends like you--who needs enemies?" CE to gsgm.

 

I'm bored with it all.

Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

 

'Finally made it, Ma ! Top o' the world !'
- Cody Jarrett.

 

Good one Martin.

 

"Gespatcho Soup!!!"

The immortal Arnold J Rimmer

 

" Is dis de end of Rico ?! "
- Edward G. Robinson.

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"Shoot Straight you Bastards, don't make a mess of it"
Lieutenant Harry 'Breaker' Morant to the British firing squad charged with his execution

 

Voltaire (1694-1778) "This is no time to make new enemies." (When asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.)

Rodgers, James W. ( -1960) [American criminal] "Why yes, a bulletproof vest!" (On his final request before the firing squad.)

I wonder where the mommy bear is
Anonymous

 

Infamy, infamy - they've all got it in for me!" Julius Caesar(Kenneth Williams)in Carry On Cleo