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This is the last of earth! I am content. - John Quincy Adams, Life of John Quincy Adams, his last words I don't feel good. - Luther Burbank, his last words I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. - James Drummond Burns, his last words I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. - Edith Louisa Cavell, quoted by the newspapers as before being shot by Germans in Brussels, Oct. 15, 1915 I've never felt better. - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. It is very beautiful over there. - Benjamin Franklin The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.] - Frederick, the Great (Frederick II), said to be his last words Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. - Charles Frohman, last words before he sank in the wreck of the Lusitania as reported by Rita Joliet Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] - James Abram Garfield, Last Words, written as he was dying I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] - quoted by Hugo Grotius, on this death bed I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. - Nathan Hale, his last words My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father. - Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, her last words Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. - Thomas Hobbes, his reported last words, hence, "Hobbes' voyage" used by Vanbrugh in "The Provoked Wife" Let us cross over the River, and rest under the shade of the Trees. - Thomas Jonathan Jackson ("Stonewall Jackson") My exit is the result of too many entrees. - Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton Thank God, I have done my duty. - Lord Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson, Life of Nelson, at the battle of Trafalgar I go to see the sun for the last time. [Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere fois.] - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Francisco Villa (Pancho Villa), his last words It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut perilleux.] - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), quoting the words of King Henry when he was about to enter the Catholic Church Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), his last words Tell them I've had a wonderful life. - Ludwig Wittgenstein The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! - Sun Yat-sen, on his deathbed
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