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  • Love one another. - George Harrison
  • Thomas Jefferson -- still survives... - John Adams, US President, d. July 4, 1826)Jefferson died earlier that same day.)
  • Am I dying or is this my birthday? - Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964 (When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.)
  • I can't sleep. - James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937
  • I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. - Humphrey Bogart, d. Jan 14, 1957
  • Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. - Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824
  • The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. - Frederic Chopin, d. Oct 16, 1849 (Dying of tuberculosis.)
  • Damn it... Don't you dare ask God to help me. (To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.) - Joan Crawford, d. May 10, 1977
  • All my possessions for a moment of time. - Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603
  • I've never felt better. - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr, d. December 12, 1939
  • I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it. - Errol Flynn, d. October 14, 1959
  • Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. - Gen Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863 (Killed in error by his own troops at the battld of Chancellorsville during the Civil War.)
  • Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal? - Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715
  • Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. - Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956
  • They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... - Gen John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864 (Killed in battle during the Civil War.)
  • Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god. - Vespasian, Roman Emperor, d. 79 AD
  • 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, d. November 30, 1900
  • Drink to me! - Pablo Picasso
  • I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. - Nathan Hale (Hanged after being arrested for spying on the British in NYC.)
  • I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. - Marie Antoinette(After stepping on the foot of the Executioner. She was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by beheading.)
  • I hope I haven't bored you. - Elvis Presley (Conclusion of his last press conference.)
  • Money can't buy life. - Bob Marley to son
  • Lady, you shot me! - Sam Cooke (after being shot in his hotel room)
  • Wow! - Bo Diddley (as he lay dying on his deathbed with his family surrounding him)
  • I'll finally get to see Marilyn. - Joe DiMaggio (his former wife, Marilyn Monroe)
  • I really need a therapist. - Christopher Grace (an actor who killed himself during a matinee performance of Grease)
  • Water. - Ulysses S. Grant
  • It's stopped. - Joseph Henry Green (upon checking his own pulse)
  • ...and now for a final word from our sponsor... - Charles Gussman (a writer who wrote for the soap opera Days of Our Lives)
  • No, you certainly can't. - John F. Kennedy (said in reply to Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting "You certainly can't say that the people of Dallas haven't given you a nice welcome, Mr. President.")
  • Is everyone else alright? - Robert F. Kennedy (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.)
  • Strike the tent. - Robert E. Lee
  • Yeah. - John Lennon (while sitting in the back of a police car on the way to the hospital, after the officers had asked him if he was John Lennon)
  • Good-bye, good-bye all. It's God's way. His will, not ours, be done. - William McKinley (25th U.S. President, assassinated in 1901)
  • Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy. - Marilyn Monroe (to her doctor)
  • I can't believe, after all this time, it was a bloody banana that killed me. - Ivanka Perko (Woman killed by Falling Banana)
  • What's happening? - Tim Russert
  • I'm going to go be with Gloria now. - Jimmy Stewart (speaking of his late wife )
  • Leave me alone - I'm fine. - Barry White
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