When you have spent most of your life putting words down, it is only appropriate that you have something witty, humorous or poignant to offer on your deathbed. See some of the worlds most famous authors final words.
Ernest Hemingway
Spoken to his wife before he killed himself
Charles Dickens
He suffered a stroke outside his home and was asking to be laid on the ground
Voltaire
When asked by a priest to renounce Satan
L. Frank Baum
The author of The Wizard Of Oz was referring to the Shifting Sands, the desert surrounding Oz
George Bernard Shaw
Hunter S. Thompson
The last sentence on his suicide note
Henrik Ibsen
This was his response to a nurse who said he was a little better
Dylan Thomas
J.M. Barrie
Author of Peter Pan
Louisa May Alcott
Alcott did not have meningitis, though she believed it to be so. She died from mercury poison
Hans Christian Andersen
Jane Austen
In response to her sister, Cassandra, who was asking her if she wanted anything?
Anton Chekhov
Dying from Tuberculosis, his doctor had given him champagne to ease the pain
Jean Cocteau
W.C. Fields
“Carlotta” was Carlotta Monti, actress and his mistress
Thomas Hobbes
Washington Irving
Speaking to his niece
Mark Twain
Speaking to his daughter Clara
Leo Tolstoy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
James Joyce
H.G. Wells
He didn't know he was dying
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe
Alfred Jarry
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Sooo... LSD or salvia?
JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan,
Michael Jackson, King of Pop,
The irony.