Last words NewPhilosopher
Marie Curie, 1934
“I don’t want it.”
(Having been offered a painkilling
injection.)Franz Ferdinand, 1914
“It is nothing... it is nothing...”
(After having been fatally shot – his
assassination triggered WWI.)George Orwell, 1950
“At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.”
(Before dying at 46 years old.)Virginia Woolf, 1941
“I don’t think two people could have
been happier than we have been.”
(In a suicide note to her husband.)Mao Zedong, 1976
“I feel ill. Call the doctors.”Elvis Presley, 1977
“I’m going to the bathroom to read.”
( Just before he was found dead on the
bathroom floor.)