"I
don't know."
— Peter Abelard, philosopher, 1079-1142
"I'm
bored. I'm bored."
— Gabriele D'Annunzio, writer, 1863-1938
"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur."
— Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 1755-1793
(Approaching the guillotine,
she stepped on her executioner's foot.)
"People are listening to too much James Taylor."
— Larry Anton (one of my college apartment
mates)
"Am
I dying or is this my birthday?"
— Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, member of
British parliament, 1879-1964
"Nothing but death."
— Jane Austen, author, 1775-1817
"Codeine
. . . bourbon."
— Tallulah Bankhead, actress, 1903-1968
"Oh
God, here I go."
— Max Baer, boxer, 1909-1959,
"Friends,
applaud, the comedy is over."
— Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, 1770-1827
"I
should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
— Humphrey Bogart, actor, 1899-1957
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"I
am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used."
— Dominique Bouhours, grammarian, 1628-1702
"I'm going away tonight "
— James Brown, godfather of soul, 1933-2006
"Do you know where I can get any shit?"
— Lenny Bruce, comedian, 1925-1966
"Whose house is this? What street are we in? Why did you bring me
here?"
— William Cullen Bryant, poet, 1794-1878
"It's been a long time since I've had champagne."
— Anton Chekhov, writer, 1860-1904
"But ... I'm an agnostic."
— Andrew H. Clark, cultural geographer, 1911-1975
"I'm tired of being the funniest one in the room."
— Del Close, author of Truth in Comedy, 1934-1999
"What an irreparable loss!"
— Auguste Comte, philosopher, 1798-1857
"Damn
it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me!"
— Joan Crawford, actress, 1908-1977
"That
guy's got to stop.... He'll see us."
— James Dean, actor, 1931-1955
"I must go in, for the fog is rising."
— Emily Dickinson, poet, 1830-1886
"Why is it so difficult to die?"
— Francisco Franco Bahamonde, dictator, 1892-1975.
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More light!"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1749-March 22, 1832.
"Love one another ."
— George Harrison, musician, 1943-2001.
"You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."
— Richard Holbrooke, U.S. diplomat, April 24, 1941-December 13, 2010.
"Does nobody understand? "
— James Joyce, writer, 1882-1941
"Kill me, or else you are a murderer!" "Such is life" (disputed) "Why
not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Yeah." "I
wish to use my body as a torch "Money can't buy life ." "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." "It
has all been very interesting."
"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here." "Born
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— Franz Kafka, writer, 1883-June 3,1924
— Ned Kelly, bushranger, 1854-1880
— Timothy Leary, gadfly, 1920-1996
To dissipate the darkness
To waken Love among men
And to bring Peace to Viet Nam."
— Nhat Chi Mai, teacher, d. 1967
— Bob Marley, musician, 1945-1981
— Karl Marx, writer, economist, philosopher 1818-1883
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, 1689-August
21, 1762
— Nostradamus, prophet, 1503-1566
— Eugene O'Neill, playwright, 1888-1953
"Get my swan costume ready."
— Anna Pavlova, ballerina, 1881-1931
"I'm going to the bathroom to read."
— Elvis Presley, musician, 1935-1977
"Wait a second."
— Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson Pompadour, Marquise d'Etoiles,
mistress of Louis XV,1721-1764
(She used the final second to apply rouge to her cheeks.)
"Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out."
"I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor."
— Francois Rabelais, writer, 1494?-1553
(both statements are reported; I don't know which is correct)
"Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?"
— William Saroyan, writer, 1908-1981
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard "
— George Bernard Shaw, writer, 26 July 1856–2 November 1950)
"What is the question?"
— Gertrude Stein, writer, 1874-July 27, 1946
"My head, my head!"
— Robert Louis Stevenson, writer, 1850-1894
"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record."
— Dylan Thomas, poet, 1914-1953
(this quote questioned, probably rightly, by gregory)
"But the peasants ... how do the peasants die?"
— Leo Tolstoy, novelist, 1828-1910
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
— Pancho Villa, revolutionary, 1877-June 20, 1923
"This is no time for making enemies."
— Voltaire, writer, 21 November 1694-30 May 1778
(asked by a priest to renounce Satan)
"I still live.... Poetry!"
— Daniel Webster, 1782-1852
"Either than wallpaper goes or I do" (legendary attribution)
— Oscar Wilde, 16 October 1854-30 November 1900)
"Curtain! Fast music! Lights! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good. The show looks good."
— Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway producer, 1869-1932