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"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
Oct 1, 2025
and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?
Good people are always so sure they're right.
The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]
Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.
I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.
All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
I shall look forward to a pleasant time.
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!
This is no time to make new enemies.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I am not the least afraid to die
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.