The Last Words of Notable People

[Lorenzo]

This is the last of Earth! I am content!

-John Quincy Adams, US President

[Lorenzo]

Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad (שמע ישראל ×"' אל×"ינו ×"' אח×")

Translation: Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God! The Lord is One!
 
- Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph (Akiva)

[Lorenzo]

"I'll come, I'll come. It's normal for you to call me. But wait a bit more."

-Pope Alexander XVI, Primarch of the Roman Catholic Church

[Lorenzo]

I found Rome brick, I leave it marble. Now, I become a god...

-Augustus the Great, Roman Emperor

[Lorenzo]

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

-Alben Barkley, US Vice President

[Lorenzo]

Now comes the mystery....

-Henry Ward Beecher,  Evangelist Minister, d. March 8, 1887

[Lorenzo]

Give me coffee, I'm going to write.

- Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet

[Lorenzo]

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

-Comedian Charlie Chaplin, d. 1977, said this after a priest was reading him his last rites and said "may the lord have mercy on your soul".

[Lorenzo]

 "This is no time to make new enemies." (When asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.)

-Voltaire

[Lorenzo]

I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.
~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702

[Lorenzo]

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
~~ Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824

[Lorenzo]

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603

[Lorenzo]

Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

[Lorenzo]

Can a god die? (referring to his declining health)

-Tiberus, Emperor of Rome