Beethoven: “I shall hear in heaven.”
Elizabeth Barret Browning: (asked how she was feeling) “Beautiful.”
‘Stonewall’ Jackson: “Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.”
Louis Agassiz: “The play is finished.”
Bing Crosby: “That was a great game of golf, fellers.”
Noel Coward: “Goodnight my darlings. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.: “I’ve never felt better.”
Allen Ginsberg: “I am quite happy. Unaccountably happy.”
Rudolph Valentino: “Don’t pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me.”
John Stuart Mill: “My work is done.”
Picasso: “Drink to me.”
Raphael: “Happy.”
Humphrey Bogart: “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
Cary Grant: “He was lucky and he knew it.”
Emily Dickinson: “I must go…the fog is rising. Oh, is that all it is?”
Katherine Mansfield: I believe…I’m going to die. I love the rain. I want the feeling of it.”
John Burroughs: “How far are we from home?”
Thomas Hobbes: “I am about to take my last voyage. A giant leap in the dark.”
O. Henry: “Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.”
Brigham Young: “Amen.”
Jesus: “It is finished.”
John Ford: “May I please have a cigar?”
Goethe: “More light!”
Brian Jones: “Don’t judge me harshly.”
D.H. Lawrence: “I think it is time for morphine.”
Richard III: “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”(Shakespeare’s version) “I will die a king of England. I will not budge afoot. Treason! Treason!” (what the real Richard said) “Print the legend”?
‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson: “Lord have mercy.”
Dorothy Parker: “Forgive my dust.”
Edgar Allan Poe: “Lord help my poor soul.”
Leonardo da Vinci: I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”
Alexander Graham Bell: “So little done, so much to do.”
Hart Crane: “Goodbye, everybody!”
George Sanders: Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries. Good luck.”