K ESTO K LOTRO: Carlos Fuentes

The last words spoken by famous people at death,
or shortly before:

Am I dying or is this my birthday?
(When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside)
~~ Lady Nancy Astor

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."
~~Ludwig van Beethoven

"Goodnight." ~~ Lord Byron

"Let us go in; the fog is rising." ~~ Emily Dickinson

"Drink to me." ~~Pablo Picasso

"Put out the light." ~~ Theodore Roosevelt

"I want to sleep..." ~~George Bernard Shaw

Have you made your peace with your God?'
I never quarreled with my God.'
But aren't you concerned about the next world?'
One world at a time.'
~~Henry David Thoreau
(Discussion with his aunt on his deathbed)

"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!" ~~Karl Marx

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have"~~ Leonardo da Vinci

"And now, I am dying beyond my means." ~~ Oscar Wilde

"Light, More Light!" ~~ Goethe

"Nothing but death." ~~ Jane Austen

"Born in a hotel room--and God damn it--died in a hotel room." ~~ Eugene O'Neill

"I don't know." ~~ Peter Abelard

"I'm bored. I'm bored." ~~ Gabriele D'Annunzio

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“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature”

Lawrence Durrell