- "Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."
- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827
- "I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct."
- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702
- "Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire." (Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)
- Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927
- "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
- Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988
- "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man." (Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.)
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967
- "A King should die standing."
- Louis XVIII, King of France, d. 1824
- "I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven." (Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.)
- Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523
- "We have lived long in love and peace." (To his wife.)
- Anthony Benezet, Teacher, Abolitionist, d. 1784
- "My beloved, they are not mine, no, they are not mine." (To his wife, who asked whose songs he was singing.)
- William Blake, British Poet, d. 1827
- "Nostitz, you have learned many a thing from me. Now you are to learn how peacefully a man can die." (To an aide)
- Gebhard von Blücher, Prussian General, d. 1819
- "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923
- "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
- Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519
- "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
- Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900
- "Beautiful." (When asked how she felt.)
- Elizabeth Barret Browning, British Poet, d. 1861
- "I want to go away."
- Alice Cary, d. 1871
- "Dear Gerda, I thank you for every day we have been together." (To his late wife.)
- Feruccio Busoni, Italian Pianist and composer, d. 1924
- "Madeline, I will take nothing more until you go to your breakfast, which you must require." (To his wife.)
- John A. Dahlgren, American Inventor, d. 1870
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