45 People Share The Most Iconic ‘Last Words’ In History

I like my Gramma's last words.

"My, what a LOVELY party!!"

She was 102 and a half, at home, and the end was very near. Family and friends (including her cardiologist, a close friend of ours) were over for Christmas, and after dinner mom put Gramma to bed. Then everyone gathered in Gramma's room with bottles of wine and champagne, played Big Band music, sang, chatted, passed Gramma wine and bubbly. Eventually everyone retired, and as mom tucked her in, Gramma said "My, what a LOVELY party!" She never woke up. It was a good passing.

Willem Arondeus. “Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards”. He was a Dutch anti-N*zi resistance fighter. Bad a*s.

My grandfather wasn't famous but I was with him when he passed. His last words were "Mary, I've missed you" and i tear up and am comforted every time i think of it. Mary was my grandmother's name, she passed about 15 years before him.

Just before hanging, French aristocrat Marquis de Favras read his death warrant and commented “I see that you have made 3 spelling errors.”

Oleksandr Matsievskiy was a Ukrainian sniper who was captured and executed by the russian invaders in late December of 2022. He was standing in what would be his grave. He said "Slava Ukraini" (Glory to Ukraine) and the russians m*rdered him.

As Voliatire was on his deathbed, a priest performed the last rites and asked him if he "rejects Satan and all his deed?" Voltaire said: “MY goodman, now is not the time for making new enemies.”

A 17 year old Yugoslavian girl, Lepa Radic, was caught fighting the N*zis. As they hung a noose around her neck they offered her a reprieve if she were to give up her co conspirators. 

She responded by telling them she was not a traitor, and that they would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.

"I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man."

My battery is low and it’s getting dark. - Mars rover.

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” - Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl was an anti-n*zi political activist who was executed for treason at the age of 21. I highly recommend looking into her story.

The almost final words of writer Roald Dahl, were "You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much" to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then injected him with morphine to ease his passing and he said his actual last words:

“Ow, f**k!”.

Oscar Wilde: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us must go.”

“Surprise me” - Bob Hope

His wife asked him where he wanted to be buried.

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." - Leonardo da Vinci.

“Let’s Roll” Todd Beamer, on board UA flight 93(9/11).

“If anyone has a message for the Devil, tell me now, for I shall be seeing him shortly.” -Lavinia Fisher, the first female serial k*ller in the US.

"More weight." - Giles Corey, as he was pressed to death for refusing to confess to witchcraft.

"Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!" - Groucho Marx.

During the sinking of the Titanic, a person named Benjamin Guggenheim was offered a life jacket. He refused, saying:

"No thank you, we are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen... But we would like a brandy".

He did not survive the sinking.

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa.

I find Marie Antoinette’s last words to be very tragic - on her way to the block she accidentally trod on the executioner’s foot and said “pardon me, sir, I did not mean to do it”.