"This is the last of earth. I am
content." (last
words, d. 1848)
"I don't need rolls."
"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."
(last words,
d. 1827)
"Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He
will not
separate us, we have been so happy."
(last words
spoken to her husband of 9 months, Rev.
Arthur
Nicholis, d. 1855)
"The earth is suffocating...Swear to
make them cut
me open so that I won't be buried
alive." (last
words, d. 1849 of tuberculosis)
"i'm bored with it all." (said before
going into a
coma, died 9 days later, 1965)
"I have tried so hard to do the right."
(last words,
d. 1908)
"Already my desire and will were
rolled--
Even as a wheel that moveth
equally--
By the love that moves the sun and the
other stars."
"He'd make a lovely corpse."
"I must go in, the fog is rising." (last
words, d.
1886)
"He will suffer if he is sorry for his
victim. Pain
and suffering are always inevitable for
a large
intelligence and a deep heart. The
really great men
must, I think, have great sadness on
earth."--Porfiry Petrovich, Crime and
Punishment
"If he has a conscience he wil suffer
for his
mistake."--Porfiry Petrovich, Crime
and
Punishment
"Reason is the slave of
passion."--Svidrigailov,
Crime and Punishment
"It is in just such stupid things clever
people are
most easily caught. The more cnning a
man is, the
less he suspects that he will be caught
in a simple
thing. The more cunning a man is, the
simpler the
trap he must be caught in."--Razumihin,
Crime and
Punishment
--7-year-old pilot
"Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the
rain?" (last
words minutes before her plane crashed,
1996)
"It is very beautiful over there." (last
words, d.
1931)
"Only two things are infinite, the
universe and
stupidity--and I'm not sure about the
former."
"The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and
science."
(from Laverne and Shirley)
"Carmine and I have an understanding. I'm allowed to date other men, and he's allowed to date other women."
--physicist
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so
boring." (last
words, d. 1988)
