Famous Final Words From 18 Powerful Icons

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James Brown: “I’m going away tonight.”

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Humphrey Bogart: “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

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Bob Marley: “Money can’t buy life.”

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John Adams: Adams and Jefferson were staunch rivals for years, but became friends later in life. As Adams lay on his deathbed, on July 4, his last words were “Thomas Jefferson survives.”Unbeknownst to him, Jefferson had actually died some hours earlier — also on July 4.

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Charles Darwin: “I am not the least afraid to die.”

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

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Archimedes: “Stand away, fellow, from my diagram!”Archimedes was killed during the Second Punic War. According to the historian Plutarch, a soldier reportedly asked the mathematician to go with him to Marcellus. However, Archimedes refused to do so until he finished the problem he was working on. Enraged, the soldier killed him.

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Augustus Caesar: To his subjects he reportedly said, “I found Rome of clay; I leave it to you of marble.”And to his friends who were with him throughout his reign said:“Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit.”

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Joe DiMaggio: “I finally get to see Marilyn.”

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Karl Marx: “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”

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Leonard Nimoy: These might not be his last words, but Leonard Nimoy’s last tweet was “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP.”LLAP is short for “Live long and prosper.”

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Some reports say that Beethoven, who was deaf by the end of life, said“I will hear in heaven ”While others suggest that he said“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est” (applaud, friends, the comedy is finished).However, still others say that after a publisher brought the composer 12 bottles of wine, his final words were:“Pity, pity, too late!”

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Marie Antoinette: After accidentally stepping on her executioner’s foot as she climbed the scaffold to the guillotine, she reportedly said, “Pardon me. I didn’t do it on purpose.”

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Michel de Nostradamus: “You will not find me alive at sunrise.”Another correct prediction, sadly.

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Napoléon Bonaparte: “France, the army, the head of the army, Joséphine.”

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Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist: “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.”

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer and physician best known for “Sherlock Holmes: He said to his wife “You are wonderful.”

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Thomas Edison: Right before his death, Edison came out of a coma, opened his eyes, and reportedly said to his wife “It is very beautiful out there.”