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alexander pope i am dying, sir, of a hundred good symptoms.

bernard le bovier de fontenelle i do not suffer, my friends; i only feel a certain difficulty of living.

robert-françois damiens o death, why art thou so long in coming?

mary wortley montagu it has all been most interesting.

frederick v of denmark it is a great consolation to me, in my last hour, that i have never wilfully offended anyone, and that there is not a drop of blood on my hands. ★

jean-jacques rousseau throw up the window that i may see once more the magnificent scene of nature.

william hunter if i had strength to hold a pen, i would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.

elizabeth pierrepont i will lie down on the couch; i can sleep, and after that i shall be entirely recovered. ★

john howard suffer no pomp at my funeral, nor monumental inscription where i am laid. lay me quietly in the earth and put a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten. ★

adam naruszewicz must i leave it unfinished?

john palmer there is another and a better world.

sophie arnould ah, the times were good! it was i who was so unhappy. ★

immanuel kant i have not yet lost my feeling for humanity.

charles james fox i die happy.

alexander adam it grows dark, boys, you may go.

alexander wilson bury me where the birds will sing over my grave.

richard brinsley sheridan i am absolutely undone.

jane austen i want nothing but death. ★

stephen decatur i am mortally wounded.. i think. ★

john keats i can feel the daisies growing over me.

jane taylor are we not children, all of us? ★

mikhail bestuzhev-ryumin nothing succeeds with me. even here, i meet with disappointment. ★

pierre-simon laplace what we know is little; what we are ignorant of is immense.

antonio josé de sucre fuck, a bullet wound. ★

william hazlitt well, i’ve had a happy life.

simón bolívar how do i get out of this labyrinth!

victor yvart nature, how lovely thou art.

georg wilhelm friedrich hegel only one man ever understood me. and he really didn’t understand me.

kaspar hauser tired—very tired—a long journey to take.

james pratt oh god, this is horrible, this is indeed horrible. ★

james k. polk i love you, sarah. for all eternity, i love you.

françois xavier aubry let me bleed. ★

edward alderson the worse, the better for me. ★