18th Century

“Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian.”

“Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian.”

“Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.”

“A dying man can do nothing easy.”

“Unknown — he was killed in battle.”

“Come, let us take a glass together.”

Catherine the Great

“Unknown — she suffered a stroke and never regained consciousness.”

“He died alone, hiding from creditors.”

“'Tis well.”

“Unknown — he lost sight and speech before death.”

John Adams

“Thomas Jefferson survives.”

John Keats

“I feel the flowers growing over me.”

Jonathan Swift

“I am what I am, I am what I am.”

“I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death.”

Marie Antoinette

“Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose.”

“Merci, monsieur. (Thank you, sir.)”

“Merci.”

“I am no coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He drowned before he could speak any final words.”

“God bless you, my dear.”

“I could wish to die not from life but into more life.”

“Is it the Fourth?”

“Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”

William Wordsworth

“Is that Dora?”

“The taste of death is upon my lips... I feel something, that is not of this earth.”