Possibly humor (decide for yourselves). FAMOUS LAST WORDS... "Et tu, Brute?" ~Gaius Julius Caesar (attributed) "Friends applaud, the comedy is over." ~Beethoven “Pardon me sir. I meant not to do it.” ~Marie Antoinette (Antoinette reportedly said these words when she accidentally stepped on her executioner's foot) "How’s this for your headline? ‘French Fries!'" ~James Donald French (French was the last criminal ever to be executed under the death penalty in Oklahoma) "Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here." ~Nostradamus "I should have never switched from Scotch to martinis." ~Humphrey Bogart "Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." ~John Barrymore "I’m bored with it all." ~Winston Churchill "I am about to – or I am going to – die: either expression is correct." ~Dominique Bouhours (legendary French grammarian) "Money can't buy life." ~Bob Marley
In her 2014 memoir, Ginger Alden revealed then-fiancé Elvis Presley's final words before his death in 1977. During a night of sleeplessness, Presley told Alden, "I'm going to the bathroom to read." The rest, as they say, is history. Poignant, funny, sad, weird or mean—last words can make quite the impact as we shuffle off the stage of life. Joseph Wright Wright, a linguist, edited the English Dialect Dictionary. His last word? “Dictionary.” Raphael Italian artist Raphael’s last word was simply “happy.” Bessie Smith Blues singer Bessie Smith died saying, “I’m going, but I’m going in the name of the Lord.” Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra died after saying, “I’m losing it.” George Orwell George Orwell's last written words were, “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” He died at age 46. Isaac Newton When Sir Isaac Newton died, he was humble. He said, “I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was also overly modest, saying, “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” The Mona Lisa isn’t good enough?
Asked by a young priest to renounce the Devil when he was on his deathbed, Voltaire said, "This is no time to make new enemies."
"Will, you watch what you're doing with your arrow, - you'll have someone's eye out" Harold Godwinson (14th October 1066, Senlac Hill, = French source)
