The famous last words of famous people

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John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
The final words of John Quincy Adams
This is the last of earth. I am content.
Said when he collapsed after a stroke in the US Senate.

Jane Austen (1561–1626)
The final words of Jane Austen
I want nothing but death.
Said to her sister Cassandra on her deathbed.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
The final words of Sir Francis Bacon
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.
The last lines in his will (his spoken last words are uncertain).

Lucille Ball (1911–1985)
The final words of Lucille Ball
My Florida water.
Said when asked if there was anything she wanted.

P. T. Barnum (1810–1891)
The final words of P. T. Barnum
Nancy, I want you to know my last thoughts are of you.
Said to his wife a few hours before he died.

Todd Beamer (1968- 2001)
The final words of Todd Beamer
Let's roll.
Overheard on an open phone line just before attempting to regain control of the hijacked Flight 93 on 9/11.

John Belushi (1949-1982)
The final words of John Belushi
Just don't leave me alone.
Said after being injected with the Class A drugs that killed him.

George Best (1946-2005)
The final words of George Best
Don't die like I did.
Handwritten on a card by his hospital deathbed.

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)
The final words of Humphrey Bogart
Goodbye Kid. Hurry back.
Said to Lauren Bacall as she briefly left his bedside.

David Bowie (1947-2016)
The final words of David Bowie
Music has been my doorway of perception and the house that I live in.
Said to his friend Gary Oldman towards the end of his life.

Buddha - Siddhattha Gautama (circa 563 BC - circa 483 BC)
The final words of the Buddha
I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness.

Donald Campbell (1921–1967)
The final words of Donald Campbell
Hallo, the bow is up… I'm going… I'm on my back… I've gone. Oh.
From a transcription of a radio message sent as his boat was crashing.

King Charles II (1630–1685)
The final words of King Charles II
Let not poor Nelly starve.
Said in reference to Nell Gwynne, after the stroke from which he died.

Erskine Childers (1870–1922)
The final words of Erskine Childers
Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.
An encouragement to his firing squad.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
The final words of Sir Winston Churchill
I'm bored with it all.
Spoken just before he slipped into a coma.

Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
The final words of of Kurt Cobain
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
Written in his suicide note.

Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
The final words of Oliver Cromwell
It is not my design to drink or sleep. My design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
His response when offered a drink by a servant.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
The final words of of Salvador Dali
I do not believe in my death.
Not his final words but an affirmation of his belief in his own imortality.

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)
The final words of Diana, Princess of Wales
My God. What's happened?
Spoken in the hearing of the paparazzi who had been following her car when it crashed.

Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

The final words of Isadora Duncan
Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire. (Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.)
Said to her friends outside her hotel just vefore her fatal car crash.

King George V (1865–1936)
The final words of King George V
Bugger Bognor!
His response when his doctor told him he would soon be well and able to visit Bognor Regis again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
The final words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mehr Licht! (More light!)
A request that the windows shutters be opened, made 30 minutes before his death.

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
The final words of of Henrik Ibsen
On the contrary.
His response when he heard a nurse tell a visitor that he was feeling better.

Michael Jackson (1958–2009)
The final words of Michael Jackson
I love you more.
His reply to his choreographer's shout of "I love you" to Jackson as he left a rehearsal in London, on the day he died.

Steve Jobs (1955–2011)
The final words of Steve Jobs
Oh wow.
Repeated three times after a long last look at his family.

Stan Laurel (1890-1965)
The final words of Stan Laurel
I'd rather be skiing.
His response when having his last injection.

John Lennon (1940-1980)
The final words of John Lennon
I'm shot.
Repeated twice as he was shot outside his apartment building in New York.

Spike Milligan (1918-2005)
The final words of Spike Milligan
I told you I was ill.
The epitaph (translated form the Gaelic) that he requested for his gravestone.

Luciano Pavarotti
(1935-2007)
The final words of Lucianno Pavarotti
I believe that a life lived for music is an existence spent wonderfully, and this is what I have dedicated my life to.
A prepared statement givenn to his manager just before he died.

Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
The final words of Elvis Presley
I hope I haven't bored you.
Said to the audience at his final concert.

General John Sedgwick (1813-1864)
The final words of General John Sedgwick
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
Said to his men who were ducking from the fire of a Confederate sniper.

Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)
The final words of Frank Sinatra
I'm losing it.
Spoken to his wife who was at his bedside when he died.

Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
The final words of Hunter S. Thompson
Relax - This won't hurt.
The final line of his suicide note.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1889–1951)
The final words of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
A message he wanted passed to friends who were due to visit him the following day.