Last Words Quotes - Page 19

• Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

  John Green

  Real, Alaska, Waiting

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• What I cannot create, I do not understand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspiring, Education, Learning

  Quoted in James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

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• So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fate, Rivers, May

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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• Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

  Steven Wright

  Wish, Bed, Lasts

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• Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Lasts, Chance

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• I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Hate, Lasts, Posterity

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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• that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Years, Lasts, Ten

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.344, Penguin UK

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• I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)

  Stephen Levine

  Love You, Healing, Eye

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.35, Harmony

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• I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

  John Green

  Army, Men, Coward

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Penguin

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• I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

  Yann Martel

  White, Light, Self

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Suicide, Rights, Easy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.333, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

  John Green

  School, Alaska, Different

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• Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

  Ryan Adams

  Lasts, Famous Last Words, Nobody Knows

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• Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

  Karl Marx

  Believe, Lasts, Fool

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• Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stories, Pages, Matter

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.175, Penguin

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