Famous Last Words – Past and Future

“It has all been very interesting!”
Lady Mary Wortley Montague.

“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”
Oscar Wilde

When he was told the angels were waiting for him, Ethan Allen quipped, “Let ’em wait.”

“I am so very happy,”
Gerard Manley Hopkins

“More light, more light.”
Goethe

Madame de Pompadour cried out to God, said “Wait a minute!” and rouged her cheeks red.

“I suppose I am turning into a god?”
The dying Emperor Vespasian

“Don’t let it end like this. Tell ’em I said something.”
Pancho Villa

Gertrude to Alice B.: “What is the answer?” [Silence] “In that case, what is the question?”

“If this is dying, I don’t think much of it,”
Lytton Strachey

“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.”
Edmund Kean

“It’s been so long since I’ve had champagne.”
Chekov

Now, compose your own tentative dying words!
an example to inspire:

“Can I turn off the pager now?”
Ur-Spo (provisional)