"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
"I
am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used."
— Dominique Bouhours, grammarian, 1628-1702
"I lingered around them, under that benign sky; watched the moths
fluttering
among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through
the
grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for
the
sleepers in that quiet earth."
— Emily Bronte, writer, 1818-1848
"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
"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.
"I'm tired. "
— Ava Gardner, actress, 1990
"More light!"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1749-March 22, 1832.
"Kill me, or else you are a murderer!"
— Franz Kafka, writer, 1883-June
3,1924
"Why
not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Yeah."
— Timothy Leary, gadfly, 1920-1996
"I
wish to use my body as a torch
To dissipate the darkness
To waken Love among men
And to bring Peace to Viet Nam."
— Nhat Chi Mai, teacher, d. 1967
"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
— Karl Marx, writer, economist, philosopher 1818-1883
"It
has all been very interesting."
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, 1689-August
21, 1762
"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here."
— Nostradamus, prophet, 1503-1566
"Born
in a hotel room--and God damn it--died in a hotel room."
— Eugene O'Neill, playwright, 1888-1953
"Get my swan costume ready."
— Anna Pavlova, ballerina, 1881-1931
"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
"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 by gregory)
"Don't
let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
— Pancho Villa, revolutionary, 1877-June
20, 1923
"I still live.... Poetry!"
— Daniel Webster, 1782-1852
"Curtain! Fast music! Lights! Ready for the last finale! Great! The
show looks good. The show looks good."
— Florenz Ziegfeld, broadway producer, 1869-1932
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