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Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.
Sep 10, 2025
I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.
Love one another (His last words)
There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.
I can die now. I've lived twice.
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.
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.
You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.
Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!
It is. But not as hard as farce.
As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.
I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.
I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.
At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.
Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?
I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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 can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
Cheer up, children, I am all right.
If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.
I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered.
You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.