Best 152 quotes in «last words quotes» category

When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.

When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified. into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And I could have done that, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it spite of having lost her. Beacause I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person. I know that she forgives me for being dumb and sacred and doing the dumb and scared thing. I know she forgives me, just as her mother forgives her.

When the condemned man saw the gallows, he knew the hypocrisy of life was over and that lies would serve him no more. He mumbled some defeated truths and left this world. The spectators were aghast and fascinated as the body swung and was still. They went about their business.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Wir werden nicht noch einmal in diese Hölle, genannt "Welt" zurückkehren müssen.

A king should die standing.

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

A great leap in the dark

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

Atheism is the last word of theism

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.

How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered.

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!

Don't worry... it's not loaded...

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

I'm going now. My time has come.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

I'm so bored with it all.

I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

Is it not meningitis?

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.

It's all been very interesting.

I die hard but am not afraid to go.

It's all been rather lovely.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

Last word in lonesome is me.

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

Let me go, let me go.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

Now comes the mystery.

Now it is nothing but torture.

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.