92 Last Words Spoken By Famous People

The grisly thought about a deathbed might be quite unnerving for anyone, but not for these famous people. Knowing the last words that someone spoke can sometimes throw light on their character or on the circumstances in which they died. You can't help but feel that some of the last quotes by famous people on this list encapsulate their personas. These phrases are also known as the final words, a commonly used phrase to describe a person’s last words before death.

And these celebrities’ last words vary so much! From the ever-level-headed Winston Churchill, who declared in his final moments that he was ‘so bored with it all’ to Malcolm X’s last words asking for peace and Michael Jackson’s last words requesting “milk,” an anesthetic. Some of these final words are deep and profound, while others are short of winning the funniest last words contest.

This list of celebrities’ last words was compiled by Imgur user howsthepeeping. Do you know of any last words and inspirational quotes that belong on this list? We’d love to have them on this list, though we ask our readers to please keep both their comments and their submissions respectful of these people’s memories.

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Todd Beamer Was A Passenger On United Flight 93, September 11, 2001. These Are His Last Recorded Words At The End Of A Cell Phone Call Before Beamer And Others Attempted To Storm The Airliner's Cockpit To Retake It From Hijackers. The Plane Crashed Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania

Todd Beamer’s last words spoken - "ARE YOU GUYS READY? LET'S ROLL."

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92 Last Words Spoken By Famous People

Todd Beamer Was A Passenger On United Flight 93, September 11, 2001. These Are His Last Recorded Words At The End Of A Cell Phone Call Before Beamer And Others Attempted To Storm The Airliner's Cockpit To Retake It From Hijackers. The Plane Crashed Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania

Jimi Hendrix Wrote This In A Poem Found Next To Him On His Deathbed. This Was The Final Sentence In The Poem

Bob Marley

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Leonardo Da Vinci

Frida Kahlo

Charlie Chaplin Said This After A Priest Reading Him His Last Rites Said "May The Lord Have Mercy On Your Soul"

Leonard Nimoy's Final Public Words, Sent In The Form Of A Tweet

Karl Marx's Response When Asked By His Housekeeper What His Last Words Were

Jack Daniel

T.S. Eliot Was Only Able To Whisper One Word As He Died: “Valerie,” The Name Of His Wife

Alfred Hitchcock

Joe Dimaggio Talking About His Former Wife, Marilyn Monroe

Salvador Dali

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Died At Age 71 In His Garden. He Turned To His Wife And Said, “You Are Wonderful,” Then Clutched His Chest And Died

George Harrison

Thomas Hobbes

Mozart

Ernest Hemingway Said This To His Wife Before Committing Suicide

R. D. Laing Suffered A Fatal Heart Attack In Public, And As People Gathered Around The Spot, Someone Said "Get A Doctor"

John Jacob Astor IV And His Wife Were Travelling On The Titanic When It Struck An Iceberg And Began To Sink. Astor Gave Up His Seat Next To His Wife To Some Female Passengers And Spoke His Final Words To His Wife; He Was Later Found Floating In The Ocean, Dead

Olavo Bilac

Pablo Picasso

Anton Chekhov

Kurt Cobain Quoted Neil Young Lyrics When He Wrote This Line In His Suicide Note

Groucho Marx

Edgar Allan Poe

Errol Flynn

Nostradamus

Marie Antoinette Said This As She Approached The Guillotine, Convicted Of Treason And About To Be Beheaded

Terry Pratchett

Winston Churchill Said This Before Slipping Into A Coma And Dying Nine Days Later

Elvis Presley Was On The Way To The Bathroom When His Fiancée Told Him: "Don't Fall Asleep In There"

John Belushi

Captain Edward Smith Was Heard Saying This Before Returning To The Bridge Of The Titanic Alone. The Ship Took Took Its Final Plunge Moments Later

Frank Sinatra

Alfred Jarry

Princess Diana

Josephine Baker

Steve Jobs

Carmen Ellis Said This To Jose Cruz, Her Mother's Boyfriend Who Was Sentenced To 75 Years In Prison For Killing Her

Humphrey Bogart

Lucy Stone

Virginia Woolf's Last Sentence In Her Suicide Note To Her Husband

Marvin Gaye Said This Moments Before Being Fatally Shot By His Father, Marvin Gaye, Sr

John Carradine Died From Multiple Organ Failure At Fatebenefratelli Hospital In Milan, Italy At Age 82. Hours Before He Died, He Climbed The 328 Steep Steps Of Milan's Gothic Cathedral, The Duomo

Benjamin Franklin Was Laying On His Deathbed WHen His Daughter Suggested That If He Lay On His Side, He Could Breathe Easier

Joan Crawford Said This To Her Housekeeper When She Began To Pray Aloud

Sam Cooke Said This After Being Shot At The Hacienda Motel

Michael Landon's Family Gathered Around His Bed, And His Son Said It Was Time To Move On. Landon Said, “You’re Right. It’s Time. I Love You All”

Jessica Dubroff, A Seven-year-old Pilot, Said This To Her Mother By Telephone As The Engines Revved

Bobby Fischer

Chris Farley Said This To A Prostitute As She Left His Hotel Room Following A Weekend-long Drug And Sex Binge. When She Turned Around, He Had Collapsed

Brittany Murphy

Aaron Burr Was An Atheist. His Last Words Were A Response To The Efforts Of His Friend, Reverend P.j. Van Pelt, To Get Burr To State That There Was A God

Lewis Carroll

Dimebag Darrell Said This While Playing With Damageplan At A Club Minutes Before He Was Shot And Killed Onstage

Jane Austen's Response To Her Sister Cassandra Who Had Asked Her If She Wanted Anything

Jim Henson

Edward Abbey's Response As To Whether He Had Any Last Words (the Epitaph On His Memorial Stone Also Reads "No Comment")

Eric Garner

Charles Schulz. From The Final Peanuts Comic Strip Released On February 13, 2000 (One Day After His Death)

Hans Christian Andersen

Adam Goldstein (aka "DJ Am") Was Found Dead In His Apartment On 28 August 2009 After Friends Called Police When They Were Unable To Contact Him For Several Days. This Was His Last Contact With Friends And Family

Christopher Hitchens

Vince Lombardi Turned To His Wife Marie And Said, “Happy Anniversary. I Love You”

Bill Hicks Didn't Die Until 11 Days Later, But He Quit Speaking After Saying This

Bing Crosby Played 18 Holes Of Golf, Even When His Doctor Said To Only Do Nine. 20 Minutes After The Game, He Suffered A Fatal Heart Attack

Heavy D's Final Tweet Sent Before Collapsing Outside His Beverly Hills Home In 2011

John Dillinger, Famous American Bank Robber

Hunter S. Thompson

Del Close

Gary Coleman

Lawrence Oates, Antarctic Explorer

Ultimate Warrior Addressed A Live Audience In What Would Be His Final Live Appearance. The Next Day, He Would Die Of A Heart Attack. These Were The Last Words The Public Heard Him Say

Roger Ebert's Final Paragraph Of His Last Public Blog Post, Written Two Days Before His Passing

Babe Ruth

Kevin Cosgrove Said This In A 911 Call To Police During The September 11th Attacks From His Office Inside The South Tower Of The World Trade Center As The Tower Collapsed

Sam Kinison