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Yesterday one of my dad’s best friends died. His final words, “I’m going to croak.” I couldn’t help but smile when I heard that. If you’re going to go out, go out in style. He was the MAN until the end.
Here are some of my favorite deathbed quotes:
- “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”
- Oscar Wilde
- “Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.”
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
- Humphrey Bogart
- “I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
(Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.)
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara
- “Why, I did not know we had quarreled.”
(When asked by his aunt if he had made his peace with God.)
- Henry David Thoreau
For a more complete list of famous deathbed quotes go here:
Famous Deathbed Quotes
I don’t have much to say about death. It’s real. It’s like gravity. It restricts what I can do but also allows me to live.
What would you like your last words to be? Please share below.
The link to the other quotes didn’t work. Here is my favorite from W.C. Fields:
W.C. Fields - A friend walked in to say goodbye and saw him reading the Bible. He said, “Bill, you never read the Bible.” W.C. replied, “I’m looking for loopholes.”
By the way, he asked that his gravestone read, “All things considered, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.”
When it’s my time to go, I’m going to speak Latin backwards and start puking everywhere. Hopefully this will count as last words.