Dying is a very dull dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing to do with it. - Somerset Maugham

Go away...I'm all right -- H.G Wells

Friends applaud; the comedy is over -- Ludwig Von Beethoven

Now comes the mystery -- Henry Ward Beecher

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender -- Anne Boleyn

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. -- Nurse Cavell (before facing a German firing squad in 1915)

I suffer nothing, but I feel a sort of difficulty in living longer. -- Fontenelle

It don't signify, my dearest, dearest Liz. -- CJ Fox (to his wife)

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man. -- Hannibal

I am taking a fearful leap in the dark. -- Hobbes

Light, more light! -- Goethe

If I had strength to hold a pen I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die. -- Dr. William Hunter

Let us pass over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees. -- Stonewall Jackson

Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come. -- Keats

So little done, so much to do. -- CJ Rhodes

I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -- Newton

Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do. -- Palmeston

There are six guineas for you and do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell -- Duke of Monmouth (to his executioner)

Hold your tongue! Your wretched chatter disgusts me. -- Malesherbes (to the priest)

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come. -- Mohammed

It has all been very interesting. -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Soldiers, save my face; aim at my heart. Farewell. --Murat, King of Naples ( to his firing squad)

Lift me up that I might die standing, not lying down like a cow. -- Siward, the Dane

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause. -- John Ziska

Forgive them father for they know not what they do -- Jesus Christ

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