• "it's very beautiful over there." - thomas edison
• "i have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian." - casanova
• "hold the cross high so i may see it through the flames!" - joan of arc
• "i can't sleep." - j.m. barrie
• "this is the last of earth! i am content!" - john quincy adams
• "see in what peace a Christian can die." - joseph addison
• "i want nothing but death" - jane austen
• "i love you too, honey. good luck with your show." - desi arnaz to lucille ball
• "to the strongest." - alexander the great
• "pardon me, sir. i did not do it on purpose." - marie antoinette to her executioner after accidentally stepping on his foot.
• "my florida water." - lucille ball, her response when asked if she wanted anything.
• "i'm in the hands of Jesus." - tammy faye bakker
• "codeine…bourbon." - tallulah bankhead
• "i would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty." - alben w. barkley, former vice president of the united dtates
• "mow i can cross the shifting sands." - l. frank baum, author of the wizard of oz
• "i am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the church may obtain liberty and peace." - thomas becket, archbishop of canterbury
• "now comes the mystery." - henry ward beecher evangelist
• "i shall hear in Heaven." - ludwig van beethoven
• "just don't leave me alone." - john belushi
• "who is it? who is it?" - billy the kid
• "i'm sorry from the bottom of my heart. i want to thank all of my family and friends for my prayers and who supported and believed in me. my Father, i'm being paroled to Heaven. i will now spend all my holidays with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. peace be with you all. Amen." - kenneth biros, first person executed by a one-drug lethal injection in ohio
• "home" - otto von bismarck
• "i should never have switched from scotch to martinis." - humphrey bogart
• "france, army, josephine" - napoleon bonaparte
• "i'm going away tonight." - james brown
• "tell mother, tell mother, i died for my country. . . . (looks at his hands) useless . . . useless . . ." *- john wilkes booth

"now i shall go to sleep. goodnight." - lord byron

• "the play is over, applaud!" - augustus caesar
• "you too, my child?" - julius caesar to brutus
• it's me, it's buddy... i'm cold." - truman capote
• "I just wish I had time for one more bowl of chili." kit carson, american frontiersman
• "I think I'll sleep now." - George Washington Carver
• "ay Jesus." - Charles V, King of France
• "why not? after all, it belongs to Him." - Charlie Chaplin
• "take a step forward lads - it'll be easier that way." - robert erskine childers, last words, to his firing squad
• "i'm so bored with it all." - winston churchill
• "so here it is!" - cleopatra
• "it don't matter; i figure i licked the rock anyway." - bernard coy, convicted criminal, shot while trying to escape alcatraz prison
• "you got me." - john dillinger
• "that guy's got to stop… he'll see us." - james dean
• "one last drink, please." - jack daniel
• "where is my clock?' - salvador salí
• "suppose, suppose." - wyatt earp, whispered to his wife.
• "KHAQQ calling itasca. we must be on you but cannot see you. gas is running low." - amelia Eearhart
• "all my possessions for a moment of time." - elizabeth I, queen of england
• "now why did i do that?" - general william erskine, said after he jumped from a window in lisbon, portugal
• "i've never felt better." - douglas fairbanks, sr.
• "i shall be with Christ, and that is enough." - michael faraday
• "please don't leave me. please don't leave me." - chris farley, said to a prostitute as she left his hotel room following a weekend-long drug and sex binge. when she turned around, chris farley had collapsed.
• "i've had a hell of a lot of fun and i've enjoyed every minute of it." - errol flynn
• "i'll sleep well tonight." - henry ford
• "you can stop now; i'm already dead." - abigail folger, said to her attackers, members of the manson family, after being stabbed repeatedly in the home of her friend sharon tate.
• "mother, i'm going to get my things and get out of this house. father hates me and i'm never coming back." - marvin gaye
• "it's stopped." - joseph henry green, upon checking his own pulse.
• "Lord, into thy hands i commend my spirit!" - lady jane grey
• "i know you are here to kill me. shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." - che guevara
• "water." - ulysses s. grant
• "everything is an illusion." - mata hari
• "goodnight my kitten." - ernest hemingway
• "turn up the lights— i don't want to go home in the dark." - o. henry
• "leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub." - conrad hilton when asked if he had any last words of wisdom.
• "one never knows the ending. one has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although catholics have their hopes." - alfred hitchcock
• "don't be in such a hurry." - billie holiday
• "this is funny." - doc holliday
• "oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven." - andrew jackson
• "let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." - general thomas "stonewall" jackson
• "that picture is awful dusty." - jesse james
• "it is finished." - Jesus
• "i hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return." - frida kahlo
• "ah well i suppose it has come to this… such is life." - ned kelly
• "is everyone else all right?" - robert f. kennedy
• "be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight — play it real pretty." -martin luther king jr.
• "don't give up the ship. fight her till she sinks." - james lawrence
• "they won't think anything about it." - abraham lincoln
• "on your way up, please take me up, on your way down, don't let me down." - bob marley
• "i have had a happy life and thank the Lord. goodbye and may God bless all!" - chris mccandless
• "it wasn't worth it." - louis b. mayer
• "good-bye, good-bye all. it's God's way. His will, not ours, be done." - william mckinley
• "die, my dear? why, that's the last thing i'll do!" - groucho marx
• "i give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ." - michelangelo
• "why should I talk to you? I've just been talking with your boss." - wilson mizner, after talking to a priest.
• "mom, i'm dying." - brittany murphy
• "the taste of death is upon my lips…i feel something, that is not of this earth." - mozart
• "Lord help my poor soul." - edgar allan poe
• "i have not told half of what i saw." - marco polo
• "i am off in search of the great perhaps." - françois rabelais
• "happy." - raphael
• "i'm going over the valley." - babe ruth
• "Jesus, i love you. Jesus, i love you." - mother teresa
• "relax — this won't hurt." - hunter s. thompson, the final sentence on his suicide note.
• "good bye. If we meet-" - mark twain, spoken to his daughter clara.
• "the best of all is: God is with us." - john wesley