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• If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

  Spencer Silver

  Failure, Silly, Creativity

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• This is no time to make new enemies.

  Voltaire

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Neil Young

  Death, Running, Believe

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

  William Saroyan

  Inspiration, Would Be, Made

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

  John Barrymore

  Bad Ass, Atheism, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.

  Lou Costello

  Ice Cream, Soda, Culinary

  Last words, 1859.

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• Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

  Lady Jane Grey

  Hands, Spirit, Lord

  Lady Jane Grey, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1825). “The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.”, p.92

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• And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Mean, Dying

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• What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Enormous, Last Words, Knows

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.

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• Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

  Edmund Gwenn

  Dying, Comedy, Tough

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• Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

  Jessica Dubroff

  Rain, Dying, Last Words

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• Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dying, Has Beens, Dies

  Joyce Milton, Charlotte Bronte (1984). “Jane Eyre”, p.9, Barron's Educational Series

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• Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

  Noel Coward

  Dying, Tomorrow, Darling

  Noel Coward's last words, March 26, 1973.

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• I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

  James K. Polk

  Love, Dying, Eternity

  Last words, spoken to his wife on June 15, 1849. "Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells" by Laura Ward, 2004.

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• So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

  Walter Raleigh

  Heart, Matter, Way

  At his execution, on being asked which way he preferred to lay his head, in William Stebbing 'Sir Walter Raleigh' (1891) ch. 30

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• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Trust, Truth, Ocean

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Death, Kings, Thinking

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• Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love You, Dying Last Words

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• Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

  Josephine Baker

  Fun, Men, People

  Josephine Baker's last words before she died of a stroke, April 12, 1975.

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• Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Music, Light, Dying

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• A dying man can do nothing easy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Dying, Easy

  Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.464, Cambridge University Press

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• You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

  Robert Alton Harris

  Inspirational, Dance, Kings

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• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  Alexander Pope

  Dying, Hundred, Symptoms

  To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637

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• All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

  Lope de Vega

  Sick, Last Words, Funny Famous Last Words

  Last word, 1635.

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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