John Magufuli(2021)· President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021✦Mike MacDonald (comedian)(2018)· Canadian actor & comedian (1954–2018)✦
John Magufuli(2021)· President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021✦Mike MacDonald (comedian)(2018)· Canadian actor & comedian (1954–2018)✦
John Magufuli(2021)· President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021✦Mike MacDonald (comedian)(2018)· Canadian actor & comedian (1954–2018)✦The final utterances of history's most fascinating figures — from ancient philosophers to modern icons. Some profound. Some absurd. All unforgettable.
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian · Renaissance
"Was it done with radium or mesothorium?"
Marie Curie
Polish-French · Modern
"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
Karl Marx
German · Victorian
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Oscar Wilde
Irish · Victorian
"It is very beautiful over there."
Thomas Edison
American · Modern
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
Pancho Villa
Mexican · Modern
"I am not the least afraid to die."
Charles Darwin
British · Victorian
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
Humphrey Bogart
American · Modern
"I'm bored with it all."
Winston Churchill
British · Modern
"Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!"
Joan of Arc
French · Medieval
"A dying man can do nothing easy."
Benjamin Franklin
American · Colonial
"Friends, applaud. The comedy is finished."
Beethoven
German · Romantic
"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
Voltaire
French · Enlightenment
"Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!"
Groucho Marx
American · Modern
"Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here."
Nostradamus
French · Renaissance
"Thomas Jefferson survives."
John Adams
American · Colonial
"Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
Frédéric Chopin
Polish · Romantic
"All my possessions for a moment of time."
Queen Elizabeth I
British · Renaissance
"(spoke in German — nurse didn't understand German)"
Albert Einstein
German-American · Modern
"Do not disturb my circles."
Archimedes
Greek · Ancient
"Et tu, Brute?"
Julius Caesar
Roman · Ancient
"Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt."
Socrates
Greek · Ancient
"Lord help my poor soul."
Edgar Allan Poe
American · Victorian
"That guy's gotta stop... He'll see us."
James Dean
American · Modern
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American · Modern
"Goodbye. If we meet—"
Mark Twain
American · Victorian
"Now it's nothing but torture and makes no sense anymore."
Sigmund Freud
Austrian · Modern
"I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
Che Guevara
Argentine · Modern
"France, the Army, Josephine."
Napoleon Bonaparte
French · Napoleonic
"Hey Ram."
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian · Modern
"She won't think anything about it."
Abraham Lincoln
American · Victorian
"So it is thus that I lose you, Charmion?"
Cleopatra
Egyptian · Ancient
"And yet it moves."
Galileo Galilei
Italian · Renaissance
"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
"(disputed — no confirmed last words)"
Marilyn Monroe
American · Modern
"The sadness will last forever."
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch · Victorian
"I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return."
Frida Kahlo
Mexican · Modern
"I'm going to the bathroom to read."
Elvis Presley
American · Modern
"(Asked where he wanted to be buried) Surprise me."
Bob Hope
American · Modern
"How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"
P.T. Barnum
American · Victorian
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