Last words

"Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like Independence Day with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back."

"Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V."

"I am a broken piece of machinery. When the machine is broken... I am ready."

"Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd."

"Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, ayez pitié de mon âme et de ce pauvre peuple."

"Can this last long?"

"Shift! Shift!"

"Let's go, I'm ready to go for this thing, we can win this thing!"

"This is your friend. Don't forget to tell me how your mother is."

"Carry me to the fort, boys. Let's go forward."

"I wish I was skiing. [Nurse: "Oh, Mr. Laurel, do you ski?"] No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing."

"We're approaching the intersection! We're approaching the intersection! We're approaching the intersection! Hold on. Pray. Oh shoot, there's- oh! Oh! Oh! OH-"

"Love y'all. Peace."

"Whatever God wants is fine by me. I've had the very best life, I have tasted beauty."

"I'm a fucking doctor."

"I am going to the inevitable."

"Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship! Fight her till she sinks!"

"Write about yourself—nothing else half so much interests your affectionate ⁠"L. E. Maclean."

"Vurmayın öldüm!"

"You're right. It's time. I love you all."

"私の心と魂は帝国の運命となるでしょう。 (Watashi no kokoro to tamashī wa teikoku no unmei to narudeshou.)"

"May this day bring you rest and peace."

"Sag mir, nachdem ich meinen Kopf abgehackt habe, werde ich wenigstens für einen Moment das Geräusch meines eigenen Blutes hören können, das aus meinem Halsstumpf sprudelt? Das wäre die Freude, alle Freuden zu beenden."

"I must get to the station."

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."

"Minä elän."

"Counting or not counting gang violence?"

"じゃ、お先に。 (Ja, osakini.)"

"I don't want to die. I don't want to die."

"Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight — play it real pretty."

"Okay, Okay, Okay."

"Tape Seinfeld for me."

"I'm suffocating...take this bag off my head! I'm claustrophobic!"

"I should have drunk more Champagne."

"Never regret that you lived in stormy times and worked with me in the Central Committee. We will yet be remembered!"

"Stella, I'm bleeding...Help me...Stella, I love you."

"Don't lift me."

"I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast! Let her rip!"

"I love you. Take care of the boys."

"I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life—complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended."

"Beautiful."

"Var intet rädd."

"Herre Jesus, anamma min ande."

"Oscar, Oscar, nous nous défendrons."

"I wish I could go with you."

"No, you certainly can't."

"These last few days are among the happiest I've ever ignored."

"Allein durch die Verdienste Jesu Christi, unseres Erlösers."

"Climb to one five thousand."

"Don't worry...it's not loaded..."