• Das ist absurd! Das ist absurd!

Who: Sigmund Freud

• Another biographer has him saying nothing; simply shaking his fists defiantly at the heavens as a thunderstorm raged outside his window

Who: Beethoven

• "All compound things are subject to breaking up. Strive on with mindfulness."

Who: Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

• "When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!"

Who: David Hume

• "Is everyone else alright?"

Who: Robert F. Kennedy context: whispered to his wife directly after he was shot and seconds before he fell into a coma. He died in the early morning hours of the next day

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

Who: Karl Marx, asked by his housekeeper what his last words were