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Last Words

  • “Farewell, my friends, I go to glory.”

    • Isadora Duncan,
    • last words, in Mary Desti, Isadora Duncan's End ()

  • “It has all been very interesting.”

  • “Nothing but death.”

    • Jane Austen,
    • last words, when asked if there was anything she wanted (1817), in J.E. Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen ()

  • “I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.”

  • “Do not grieve, my friend — my dearest friend. I am ready to go, and — John, it will not be long.”

    • Abigail Adams,
    • in last letter to John Adams (1818), in Dorothie De Bear Bobbé, Abigail Adams, the Second First Lady ()

  • “I must go in, the fog is rising.”

    • Emily Dickinson,
    • the last words she wrote, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi, ed., The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson ()

  • “[On Gertrude Stein:] About Baby's last words. She said upon waking from a sleep — What is the question. And I didnt answer thinking she was not completely awakened. Then she said again — What is the question and before I could speak she went on — If there is no question then there is no answer. And she turned and went to sleep again. Were they not a summing up of her life and perhaps a vision of the future — often they mean that to me and then they are a comfort.”

    • Alice B. Toklas,
    • 1953, in Edward Burns, ed,. Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas ()

  • “How I have longed for thee! Oh welcome hour — the end of exile.”

    • Teresa of Avila,
    • last words (1582), in Barnaby Conrad, Famous Last Words ()

  • “We shall meet again!”

    • Madame Récamier,
    • last words (1849), in Barnaby Conrad, ,i>Famous Last Words ()

  • “For my own epitaph, I ask that it be: 'I loved and was loved and all the rest was background music.'”

  • “[Preparing to meet a firing squad in 1917:] Life is an illusion.”

    • Mata Hari,
    • in Barbara McDowell and Hana Umlauf, Woman's Almanac ()

  • “I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.”

    • Maria Theresa,
    • last words (1780), in Mrs. Jameson, Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns ()

  • “So that's how you die.”

  • “Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.”

  • “Let me go, let me go.”

    • Clara Barton,
    • last words (1912), in Barnaby Conrad, Famous Last Word ()

  • “The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender.”

    • Anne Boleyn,
    • 1536, in Barnaby Conrad, Famous Last Words ()

  • “Make the world better.”

    • Lucy Stone,
    • alleged last words, in William R. Evans III and Andrew Frothingham, eds., Crisp Toasts ()

  • “Why are we so fond of that life which begins with a cry and ends with a groan?”

  • “[During the enjoyment of a good meal when she was almost 100 years old:] Quick! Serve the dessert! I think I am dying.”

  • “How fast it comes ...”

    • Dorothea Lange,
    • last words, in Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life ()

  • “Just one more moment, executioner, just one more moment!”

  • “It's all been very interesting.”

  • “If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now.”

  • “I can die now. I've lived twice.”

    • Edith Piaf,
    • in Laura Ward, ed., Famous Last Words ()

  • “[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.”