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Famous Last Words

The final utterances of history's most fascinating figures — from ancient philosophers to modern icons. Some profound. Some absurd. All unforgettable.

Showing 40 of 40 entries

Regret1519
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian · Renaissance

Scientific1934
"Was it done with radium or mesothorium?"

Marie Curie

Polish-French · Modern

Witty1883
"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

Karl Marx

German · Victorian

Witty1900
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

Oscar Wilde

Irish · Victorian

Mysterious1931
"It is very beautiful over there."

Thomas Edison

American · Modern

Witty1923
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

Pancho Villa

Mexican · Modern

Peaceful1882
"I am not the least afraid to die."

Charles Darwin

British · Victorian

Witty1957
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."

Humphrey Bogart

American · Modern

Resigned1965
"I'm bored with it all."

Winston Churchill

British · Modern

Religious1431
"Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!"

Joan of Arc

French · Medieval

Resigned1790
"A dying man can do nothing easy."

Benjamin Franklin

American · Colonial

Dramatic1827
"Friends, applaud. The comedy is finished."

Beethoven

German · Romantic

Witty1778
"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."

Voltaire

French · Enlightenment

Witty1977
"Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!"

Groucho Marx

American · Modern

Prophetic1566
"Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here."

Nostradamus

French · Renaissance

Ironic1826
"Thomas Jefferson survives."

John Adams

American · Colonial

Fearful1849
"Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."

Frédéric Chopin

Polish · Romantic

Regret1603
"All my possessions for a moment of time."

Queen Elizabeth I

British · Renaissance

Mysterious1955
"(spoke in German — nurse didn't understand German)"

Albert Einstein

German-American · Modern

Defiant212 BC
"Do not disturb my circles."

Archimedes

Greek · Ancient

Betrayal44 BC
"Et tu, Brute?"

Julius Caesar

Roman · Ancient

Philosophical399 BC
"Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt."

Socrates

Greek · Ancient

Religious1849
"Lord help my poor soul."

Edgar Allan Poe

American · Victorian

Ironic1955
"That guy's gotta stop... He'll see us."

James Dean

American · Modern

Defiant1943
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American · Modern

Unfinished1910
"Goodbye. If we meet—"

Mark Twain

American · Victorian

Resigned1939
"Now it's nothing but torture and makes no sense anymore."

Sigmund Freud

Austrian · Modern

Defiant1967
"I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."

Che Guevara

Argentine · Modern

Nostalgic1821
"France, the Army, Josephine."

Napoleon Bonaparte

French · Napoleonic

Religious1948
"Hey Ram."

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian · Modern

Ironic1865
"She won't think anything about it."

Abraham Lincoln

American · Victorian

Dramatic30 BC
"So it is thus that I lose you, Charmion?"

Cleopatra

Egyptian · Ancient

Defiant1642
"And yet it moves."

Galileo Galilei

Italian · Renaissance

Humble1727
"I don't know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore."

Isaac Newton

British · Enlightenment

Mysterious1962
"(disputed — no confirmed last words)"

Marilyn Monroe

American · Modern

Melancholic1890
"The sadness will last forever."

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch · Victorian

Hopeful1954
"I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return."

Frida Kahlo

Mexican · Modern

Mundane1977
"I'm going to the bathroom to read."

Elvis Presley

American · Modern

Witty2003
"(Asked where he wanted to be buried) Surprise me."

Bob Hope

American · Modern

Dedicated1891
"How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"

P.T. Barnum

American · Victorian