The Famous Last Words Of 41 Historical Greats

Publish date: 2024-08-15

From Edgar Allen Poe to Tupac, enjoy the biting and sometimes hilarious last words of some of history's greatest figures.

Famous Last Words Of Frida Kahlo "I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return." - Frida Kahlo George Harrison "Love one another." - George Harrison Last Words James Baldwin "I'm bored." - James Baldwin Salvador Dali "Where is my clock?" - Salvador Dalí Tupac "Fuck you." - Tupac Shakur Eleanor Roosevelt's Last Words "Utter Nonsense" - Eleanor Roosevelet Muhammad Ali "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 Amy Winehouse "I don't want to die." - Amy Winehouse Elvis Presley "I'm going to the bathroom to read." - Elvis Presley Jane Austen "I want nothing but death." - Jane Austen Karl Marx's Last Words "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." - Karl Marx Joan Crawford's Last Words "Don't you dare ask God to help me." - Joan Crawford Famous Last Words Joe Dimaggio "I finally get to see Marilyn." - Joe Dimaggio Emily Dickinson Final Words "I must go in, the fog is rising." - Emily Dickinson Daniel "One last drink, please." - Jack DanielFamous Last Words Of Jack Daniel Da Vinci "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." - Leonardo Da Vinci Coco Chanel's Famous Last Words "You see, this is how you die." - Coco Chanel Josephine Baker "Oh, you young people act like old men. You are no fun." - Josephine Baker Robert Kennedy "Don't lift me." - Robert F. Kennedy Nostradamus' Last Words Before Death "Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here." - Nostradamus James Brown "I'm going away tonight." - James Brown Last Words Of Humphrey Bogart "Goodbye, kid. Hurry back." - Humphrey Bogart Alfred Hitchcock "One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes." - Alfred Hitchcock Ernest Hemingway "Goodnight, my kitten." - Ernest Hemingway Last Words Of Winston Churchill "I'm bored with it all." - Winston Churchill Che Guevara "Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." - Che Guevara Louisa May Alcott Deathbed Words "Is it not meningitis?" - Louisa May Alcott Benjamin Franklin "A dying man can do nothing easy." - Benjamin Franklin Arthur Conan Doyle Famous Last Words "You are wonderful." - Arthur Conan Doyle Harriet Tubman "Swing low, sweet chariot." - Harriet Tubman Mozart's Famous Last Words Before Death "I feel something that is not of this earth." - Mozart Groucho Marx "This is no way to live!" - Groucho Marx Edith Piaf Famous Last Words "Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for." - Edith Piaf W.C. Fields "God damn the whole friggin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta." - W.C. Fields Steve Jobs Haunting Last Words "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." - Steve Jobs Pancho Villa "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa Laurence Olivier's Last Words "This isn't Hamlet, you know. It's not meant to go in my bloody ear." - Laurence Olivier Edgar Allan Poe "Lord help my poor soul." - Edgar Allan Poe Chico Marx "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 William S. Burroughs "Back in no time." - William S. Burroughs Voltaire's Famous Last Words "Now is not the time for making new enemies." - Voltaire, after being asked by a priest to renounce Satan.

Be they in the arts, politics, or sports, 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 famous last words in the gallery above serve as an apt reminder that no one, not even the larger than life, can predict their end -- or for that matter, know exactly what they will say upon their dying breath.

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