19th Century

Abraham Lincoln

“She won't think anything about it.”

Abraham Lincoln

“She won't think anything about it.”

“Unknown — she died after a long illness.”

“As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination.”

“As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination.”

“I hope they would simply say I tried to live a noble life.”

“Oh, do not cry. Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven.”

“It's been a long time since I've had champagne.”

Antonín Dvořák

“He died at home surrounded by family.”

“I had rather live but I am not afraid to die.”

Billy the Kid

“¿Quién es? (Who is it?)”

Charles Babbage

“He died peacefully at home.”

“I am not the least afraid to die.”

“On the ground.”

Charlotte Brontë

“Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.”

“All my honors have come to me unsought.”

Claude Monet

“I have always had a horror of the word eternal.”

“I am the last man alive at the Alamo. I will die like a soldier.”

Doc Holliday

“This is funny.”

“Lord help my poor soul.”

“What a beautiful thing breathing is!”

Emily Dickinson

“I must go in, the fog is rising.”

“She died peacefully in her sleep.”

Franz Liszt

“Tristan.”

“Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.”

“Unknown — he collapsed at home.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Mutter, ich bin dumm. (Mother, I am dumb/stupid.)”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is finished! I always knew that I would die on this day.”

“I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.”

“He died from a stroke, surrounded by close friends.”

“I see it! I see it!”

Harriet Tubman

“I go to prepare a place for you.”

Hector Berlioz

“They are finally going to play my music.”

“Moose... Indian.”

“Unknown — he died in obscurity.”

“The people whom I have served, may God bless them.”

“I love you, Sarah, for all eternity, I love you.”

“I want nothing but death.”

Jesse James

“That picture's awful dusty.”

“Strange, I don't feel any pain. That's strange.”

“Strange, I don't feel any pain. That's strange.”

John D. Rockefeller

“I have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness.”

“This is the last of earth! I am content.”

José Rizal

“Consummatum est. It is finished.”

Karl Marx

“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.”

Leo Tolstoy

“To seek, always to seek.”

“Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.”

“Friends, applaud. The comedy is over.”

Mark Twain

“Goodbye. If we meet—”

“Please don't let me fall.”

“France, armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine. (France, army, head of the army, Joséphine.)”

Napoleon III

“Were you at Sedan?”

“Unknown — he died in his sleep.”

“Such is life.”

Oscar Wilde

“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“A great European war is coming. You may see it.”

“I despise myself.”

“Bertie.”

“O that beautiful boy.”

Richard Wagner

“He died in his wife Cosima's arms in Venice.”

“Strike the tent.”

“I am not going. Do with me what you like. Come on! Take action! Let's go!”

“My death is certain.”

“Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.”

“Aren't you going to try for it, man?”

“Eva, what is this?”

“Eva, what is this?”

Ulysses S. Grant

“Water.”

“La tristesse durera toujours. (The sadness will last forever.)”

“Hold me up; I want to shit.”

“Well, I must arrange my pillows for another weary night.”

Wild Bill Hickok

“Agnes, I wish you were here.”

“I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.”

“It is God's way. His will be done, not ours.”

“Suppose.”

“I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.”