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Famous Last Words

Quotations

(Final words before dying; some fictional, some not)

"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
"I desire to go to hell and not to heaven. In the former place, I shall encounter princes while in the latter are only beggars, monks, and apostles."
"Slaves...I am surrounded by slaves"
"Go to Minas Tirith and save my people. I have failed."
"Light! More light!"
"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?
"Go away. I'm all right."
"This is the fourth?"
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
"I meddled in things that man must leave alone."
"...the fog is rising..."
"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
"And now, I am dying beyond my means."
"Which is better--to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?"
"Timshel!"
"All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!"
"Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Yeah."
"Only one man ever understood me. And he didn't understand me."

Books

Name the book; characters are not necessary.

Of course he won't mind/When he finds that he has/A circus behind.
History will call us wives.
"How nice of the doctor to save it for us," said the man in the yellow hat. "And NOW we can finish the puzzle."
I don't like the design of your new menhirs! Let's keep it Gaulish.
As long as Rome is the Eternal City, these lines shall echo from the lips of men, as long as poetry speaks true on earth, that immortality is mine to wear.
If some spark does set the keg afire, it will be a senseless tragedy of ignorant against ignorant, injustice answering injustice--a holocaust that will drag down the innocent and right thinking masses of human beings. Then we will all pay for not having cried justice long ago.
And I thought about the Angel of the Lord--Gladys, with her skinny legs and her dirty sneakers sticking out from under her robe, yelling at all of us everywhere, "Hey! Unto you a child is born!"
Miss Bianca, reunited with the Boy and once again domiciled in her Porcelain Pagoda, was happy too. It was really the life that suited her best. But they none of them forgot each other, or their famous adventure in the Black Castle.
"Anything to eat?" said Charlie. "Oh, you just wait and see!"
And somehow, Sara felt as though she understood her, though she said so little and only stood still and looked and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian Gentleman and they got into the carriage and drove away.
It was the devious cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
"Me too," quoth Harvey Cheyne.
Slouching hopefully toward Tadfield...forever.
Zedd gave the boundary warden a sidelong glance. "Because she knows more about the underworld than anyone alive."
But the Third Reich had passed into history.
How ironic, Ignatius thought. Taking the pigtail into one of his paws, he pressed it warmly into his wet moustache.
He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar.
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
"on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars."
It was there that we emerged, to see--once more--the stars.
She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together, and smiled mysteriously.
Hazel followed, and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.
Now everybody--
To the everlasting glory of the infantry.
A man can stand up.
Charlotte was both.
I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the Great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge. Amen.
Oh my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!
My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it. I never knew who my father was.
And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be home again!
Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
"Goodnight, Papa," I said. "We had thirteen sad years." That was all I could say, so I just turned and walked away from a patch of grassless land.
It was Tao, returning for his old friend, that they might end their journey together.
For you see, in Ireland, there is no future, only the past happening over and over.
Strike up, pipers.
South-south-west, south, south-east, east.
A crackle of static emerged and then the petty officer's voice--Mooring.
It was a small white chicken feather.
Only so will we receive, only so find, and only so will the door be opened to us. Amen.
He passed on unsuspecting and deadly, like a pest in a street full of men.
The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.
"Well, I would like to make another trip," he said, jumping to his feet, "but I really don't know when I'll have time. There's just so much to do right here."
Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which each chapter is better than the one before.
But that is not fate's way: Lotus died in childbirth within a year of her marriage.
"The field's cut!" Helen cried excitedly--"the big meadow! We've seen to the very end, and it'll be such a crop of hay as never!"
"My place," Zeeny offered. "Let's get the hell out of here." "I'm coming," he answered her, and turned away from the view.

Epitaphs

(Who lies under these words?)

Satchmo
Oh All Ye Fowls of/The Air, Bless Ye the/Lord; Praise Him and Magnify/ Him Forever
America's Favorite Cowboy
Justice of the Peace, Law West of the Pecos
He thinketh no evil
The Boy Bandit King/He died as he had lived
"That's All Folks"
And the beat goes on
Statesman, Yet Friend to Truth: of Soul Sincere, in Action, Faithful, and in Honor, Clean
The Entertainer--He did it all
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman
Steel true, blade straight/ *******, Patriot, physician, and a man of letters.
So we beat on, boats against this current, born back ceaselessly into the past
The Iron Brigade rears this block of granite to a beloved commander
In the great cause of good government
I had a lover's quarrel with the world
Call Me Trimtab
The mightiest ballad singer of this or any other century. He lies on through his art.
Novelist--Citizen of Two Countries--Interpreter of his generation on both sides of the sea
He died in Bed
Hear Underneath this laitl Stean/ Laz *****/ Ne'er arcir ver as hie sa geud/ And pipul kaul im ******/Sich utlawz az he an iz men/Vil England nivr si agen
Gave his left arm at Churubusco, Mexico August 18, 1847 and his life at Chantilly, VA 1862
Here lies one whose name was writ in water
Then conquer we must when our cause it it just and this be our motto: "In God We Trust"
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last
In another time and place, he would have been called prophet
Founder of Jeet Kune Do
Everybody loves somebody sometime
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker
Even amidst fierce flames, the golden lotus must be planted
The Artist must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
A dynamic innovative leader who captured America's imagination. He was a builder of champions, in football and in life. 105 wins, 12 losses, 5 ties.
Freed from slavery by his friend Taylor Blow
The Best Is Yet To Come
The Master Has Won
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself into our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Cast a Cold Eye/On Life On Death/Horseman Pass By

Television

What were the last words spoken in Cheers?
What are the last words spoken in the Krusty Gets Cancelled Simpsons episode?
The last words in this series were "And somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do." Name it.
What were the last words Henry Blake said to Radar before he left the 4077th?
Production companies are generally the last thing you see in a show. Give the production companies for these shows. (20th Century Fox is not a production company, by the way.)
1. Space: Above and Beyond
2. Futurama
3. The Oprah Winfrey Show
4. Late Night with David Letterman
5. Family Guy
6. King of the Hill

Movies

What is the last phrase spoken by Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas?
Whose last words are these? "No, no, you can't get away! From Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!"
And these? "Cut to commercial! Cut to commercial!"
What were Captain Kirk's last words?
In the X-Files Movie, someone had the last words "Trust No One." Who?
"Mein Fuehrer! I can walk!" Name the character and the movie.
What is the last phrase spoken by Audrey II in the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors?
"That's right, Matrix, you did." Name the character and the movie.
"I wish I could have seen Montana." Name the character and the movie.
"I hope the Pacific is as blue as it is in my dreams. I hope." Name the movie.
"Xi was beginning to think he would never find the end of the earth. Then, one day, suddenly, there it was." Name the movie.
"But you don't understand! I'm a man!" "Well, nobody's perfect." Name the movie.

Miscellaneous

Briefly describe the endings of the following games:
1. Final Fantasy 3 (US)
2. Might and Magic VI
3. Street Fighter (when playing Fei Long)
"What's that you say? You say today is Saturday? Goodbye, I'm going out to play!"
"Til human voices wake us, and we drown."
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Essay: What are the classiest/funniest last words you can think of?