Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00072)

I don't remember where this came from (I found it in my computer) so 
forgive if you have seen it before. Else, consider it a welcome 
aside from the dastardly dreary delirious driveling I usually post.

Famous last words

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still 
carry a tune.
Woody Allen

When one considers just what man is, Happy it be that short his span 
is.
James Cagney

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six
Leo Tolstoy

The angels are waiting for me? Well, goddamn them, let them wait!
General Mad Anthony Wayne

When told he would have to list all his sins, Charles II of England 
responded, "That, Father, would take more years than I have hours."

Dying is a very dull dreary affair. My advice to you is to have 
nothing to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Go away...I'm all right
H.G Wells

Friends applaud; the comedy is over
Ludwig Von Beethoven

Now comes the mystery
Henry Ward Beecher

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very 
slender
Anne Boleyn 

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards 
anyone.
Nurse Cavell (before facing a German firing squad in 1915) 

I suffer nothing, but I feel a sort of difficulty in living longer.
Fontenelle

It don't signify, my dearest, dearest Liz.
CJ Fox (to his wife)

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

I am taking a fearful leap in the dark.
Hobbes

Light, more light!
Goethe

If I had strength to hold a pen I would write down how easy and 
pleasant a thing it is to die.
Dr. William Hunter

Let us pass over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
Stonewall Jackson

Severn ? I ? lift me up ? I am dying ? I shall die easy; don't be 
frightened ? be firm, and thank God it has come.
Keats 

So little done, so much to do.
CJ Rhodes

I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to 
have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting 
myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell 
than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all 
undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton

Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do.
Palmeston

There are six guineas for you and do not hack me as you did my Lord 
Russell
Duke of Monmouth (to his executioner) 

Hold your tongue! Your wretched chatter disgusts me.
Malesherbes (to the priest)

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

It has all been very interesting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Soldiers, save my face; aim at my heart. Farewell.
Murat, King of Naples ( to his firing squad)

Lift me up that I might die standing, not lying down like a cow.
Siward, the Dane

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.
John Ziska

Forgive them father for they know not what they do.
Jesus Christ