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Famous Last Words

October 4, 2006·
Culture

detail from Camille Monet on Her Death Bed - Claude Monet, 1879

Drink to me!

Pablo Picasso

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god.

Vespasian, emperor of Rome

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin

I am dying. Please … bring me a toothpick.

Alfred Jarry, writer

I could go on …

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