Last words of famous people. The last words of ordinary people before death (1 photo)

Man's attitude towards death is great mystery. No matter what he says about this during his lifetime, only he knows about real feelings in the minute before death. People who seek to lift the veil of this mystery collect and examine the last words spoken by a person before death. Of particular interest are the statements of people who left a noticeable mark in history and culture. As a rule, their last words have deep meaning and meaning for posterity. Today we bring to the attention of the reader another publication.

DENIS IVANOVICH FONVIZIN (1745-1792), Russian writer
Shortly before his death, Fonvizin, already paralyzed, rode on wheelchair in front of the university and shouted to the students: “This is what literature brings to. Never be a writer! Never engage in literature!”
ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH RADISHCHEV (1749-1802), Russian philosopher and writer
From the memoirs of his son, Pavel Alexandrovich: “... at ten o'clock in the morning, Radishchev, feeling unwell and taking medicine, incessantly worrying, suddenly takes a glass with “strong vodka” prepared in it (a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids) to burn out old officer epaulettes his eldest son and drinks it all at once. Then, grabbing a razor, he wants to kill himself. His eldest son noticed this, rushes to him and pulls out the razor. "I will have to suffer," said Radishchev. An hour later, the life physician Ville arrives, sent by Emperor Alexander I. Ville shouts: “Water, water!” - and prescribes medicine. But there was little hope ... Before his death, Radishchev said: “Descendants will avenge me ... ” .
IVAN SERGEEVICH TURGENEV (1809-1883), Russian writer
His last words were addressed to the Viardot family surrounding him: “Closer, closer to me, and let me feel all of you near me ... The moment has come to say goodbye ... Forgive me!”
NIKOLAY VASILIEVICH GOGOL (1810-1852), Russian writer
He died of malarial encephalitis in terrible agony. His inadequate mental state, caused by illness, was the cause of the tragedy when, a few days before his death, he burned the second volume " dead souls". Count A.P. Tolstoy, in whose house Gogol lived, invited the Moscow luminaries of medicine to the sick writer, but all was in vain.
He died on February 21 at 8 am, leaving an inheritance in the amount of 43 rubles. 88 kop. and... his immortal name. His last words were: “Ladder. Crushes ... the stairs! And to the doctors: "Don't disturb me, for God's sake!"
VISSARION GRIGORYEVICH BELINSKY (1811-1848) Russian literary critic
According to eyewitnesses who were present at the death of the famous critic: “Belinsky, who was already lying in the heat, exhausted and without memory on the bed, suddenly, to their amazement, jumped up; flashing his eyes, he took a few steps, spoke some words indistinctly, but with energy, and began to fall. They supported him, put him to bed, and in a quarter of an hour he was gone ... "
NIKOLAI ALEKSANDROVICH DOBROLYUBOV (1836-1861), Russian philosopher and literary critic
From the memoirs of Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva, a close friend of Dobrolyubov: “I entrust my brothers to you ... Don’t let them spend money on stupid things ... Bury me easier and cheaper.” A little later he asked: “Give me a hand ...” I took his hand , she was cold ... He looked at me intently and said: “Goodbye ... go home! Soon!" Those were his last words.
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY (1821-1881), Russian writer
From the memoirs of the writer's wife: “... He kissed the lips of the children, they kissed him and, by order of the doctor, immediately left ... 2 hours before his death, when the children came to his call, Fyodor Mikhailovich ordered to give the Gospel to his son Fedya and, holding my hand in his, he said: “Poor ... dear, with what I leave you ... poor, how hard it will be for you to live.”
IVAN ALEKSANDROVICH GONCHAROV (1812-1891), Russian writer
In September, the sick writer was transferred from his dacha to his city apartment, where health care could be more accessible. On the night of September 15, Ivan Alexandrovich died quietly from pneumonia. Before his death, Goncharov asked his friends to be buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, somewhere on a hill near a cliff.
MIKHAIL EVGRAFOVICH SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN (1826-1889), Russian writer
“Before my death, I wanted to remind the public of some valuable and weighty words for her: shame, conscience, honor, etc., which others have forgotten and do not affect anyone,” he said to Eliseev. “There were, you know, the words: well, conscience, fatherland, humanity ... there are others. Now take the trouble to look for them! We must remind them ... ”, - he said to Mikhailovsky. He got worse and worse. On the night of April 27-28, he had a stroke, and he lost consciousness, which never returned to him. He died on April 28 at 4 p.m.
MAXIM GORKY (1868-1936), Russian writer
In one of last days of his life he said in a barely audible voice: "Let me go." And the second time, when he could no longer speak, he pointed with his hand at the ceiling and doors, as if wanting to escape from the room. In the "Socialist Bulletin" of 1954, it was said that B. Gerland, a prisoner in the Gulag, in Vorkuta, worked in the infirmary with Professor Pletnev. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Gorky, but he was replaced death penalty for 25 years in the camps (later the term was reduced by 10 years). B. Gerland wrote: “Gorky liked to treat his visitors with bonbonnieres (sweets). This time he gave generously to two orderlies and ate a few himself. An hour later, all three began excruciating stomach pains, and death soon followed. An autopsy was performed, which showed that everyone died from poison.
LEV NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910), Russian writer
Leo Tolstoy died on the way south at the Ostapovo postal station. He muttered something indistinctly, as if in a dream: "... I love the truth more." "A lot, a lot ... presses ... presses, well," he suddenly shouted loudly, and ... the end came.
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV (1860-1904), Russian writer
When the doctor arrived, Chekhov himself told him that he was dying and that he should not be sent for oxygen, because by the time it was brought, he would be dead. The doctor ordered to give the dying man a glass of champagne. Chekhov took a glass and, as Olga Leonardovna recalls, turned to her, smiled his amazing smile, said: “I haven’t drunk champagne for a long time.” He drank everything to the bottom, quietly lay down on his left side and soon left forever.
ALEXANDER STEPANOVICH GREEN (1880-1932), Russian writer
He died as hard as he lived. He asked to put his bed to the window. Outside the window, the distant Crimean mountains shone blue... A few days before his death, author's copies were sent to him from Leningrad last book « Autobiographical story". Green smiled weakly, tried to read the inscription on the cover, but could not. The book fell from his hands. Green's eyes, which could see the world so unusually, were already dying. Green's last word was either a groan or a whisper: "I'm dying! .."
ALEXANDER IVANOVICH KUPRIN (1870-1938), Russian writer
From the memoirs of the writer’s daughter, Xenia: “Mom wrote down in her diary everything that my father said shortly before his death:“ I don’t want to die, I want life. wept: "Why am I sick? What happened? Don't leave me." “Mommy, how good life is! After all, we are in the Motherland, aren't we? Tell me, tell me, are there Russians around? How good it is! I feel something is not normal, call the doctor. Sit with me, mommy, it's so cozy when you're with me, next to me! I have a strange mind now, I don't understand everything. Here, here it begins, don't leave me. I'm scared"".
MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH PRISHVIN (1873-1954), Russian writer
From the memoirs of the writer’s wife, Valeria Dmitrievna: “Severe pains began in the afternoon, and he asked me anxiously: “How are we going to live now?” I tried my best to calm him down. A. and P. L. Kapits, drank his light wine with them, said that he was buying new car- “all-terrain vehicle” ... I listened to a new record with a recording of his voice. After seeing off the guests, he said that he was very tired, went to bed. He asked me to read poetry to him. At about 12 o'clock in the morning a heart attack began. Then he began to choke: he would sit down, then lie down, I supported him with my hands and said: “Be patient.” And he answered very energetically, even angrily: “This is about something else, but with this - we you have to manage on your own." Under the influence of pantopon, he calmed down, turned away to the wall, put his hand under his cheek, as if settling down comfortably to fall asleep ... and quietly died.
NIKOLAI ALEKSEEVICH OSTROVSKY (1904-1936), Soviet writer
From the memoirs of his wife, Raisa Ostrovskaya: “He spoke to me about the fact that a person must be steadfast and courageous and not give up under the blows of life: “Anything happens in life, Raek ... Remember how life beat me, tried to knock me out of action . And I did not give up, stubbornly went to the intended goal. And he emerged victorious. Witnesses to this are my books. "I listened in silence. He asked me not to drop out of school ... Then he remembered our old mothers: “Our old women spent their whole lives caring for us ... We owe them so much ... but give nothing we don’t have time ... Remember them, Rayusha, take care of them ... ”That night was endless ... Without regaining consciousness, he died in the evening, at 19 hours 50 minutes, on December 22, 1936.”
MIKHAIL AFANASIEVICH BULGAKOV (1891-1940), Russian writer
In her memoirs, the writer's wife, Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova, cites the last words of her husband: “He made me understand that he needed something, that he wanted something from me. I offered him medicine, drink, lemon juice, but I clearly understood that this was not the point. Then I guessed and asked: “Your things?” He nodded with such a look that both “yes” and “no”. I said: “Master and Margarita”? He, terribly delighted, made a sign with his head that “yes, this is ". And he squeezed out two words: “To know, to know.”
ALEXANDER ALEKSANDROVICH FADEEV (1901-1956), Soviet writer
According to the memoirs of the housekeeper Landysheva, Fadeev came to her kitchen on the morning of May 13, but refused breakfast, went to his office. Before shooting himself, he wrote a suicide letter addressed to the Central Committee of the CPSU: “I don’t see the opportunity to continue to live, since the art to which I gave my life has been ruined by the self-confidently ignorant leadership of the party, and now can no longer be corrected. The best cadres of literature - including a number that the tsar's satraps could not even dream of - were physically exterminated or perished thanks to the criminal connivance of those in power ... My life as a writer loses all meaning, and I am with great joy, as deliverance from this vile existence, where on meanness, lies and slander are falling upon you, I am leaving this life ... last hope I even wanted to say this to the people who rule the state, but for the past three years, despite my requests, they can’t even accept me. I ask you to bury me next to my mother.”
VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH NABOKOV (1899-1977), Russian writer, Nobel laureate
The writer's son, Dmitry, says that when he said goodbye to his father on the eve of his death, the dying man's eyes suddenly filled with tears. “I asked why? He said that some butterflies must have already begun to fly ... "
MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH ZOSCHENKO (1894-1958), Soviet writer
He was alone. Lying with his coat on. There were vials of medicines on a chair nearby. The room was not tidy. Everywhere, on the table, on the books, there was dust. He was sad and said: “I keep thinking that a person needs to die on time. God, how right Mayakovsky was! I'm too late to die. You have to die on time."
VASILY MAKAROVICH SHUKSHIN (1929-1974), Soviet writer
From the memoirs of the artist Georgy Ivanovich Burkov: “The doctor was not on the ship: he left that day for a wedding in one of the villages. Validol did not help. I remembered that my mother drinks drops of Zelenin from the heart. Shukshin drank this medicine.
- Well, how, Vasya, is it easier?
- What do you think, does it work right away? We have to wait...
“You know,” Vasily Makarovich said after a short pause, “I just read in the book of memoirs about Nekrasov how he died hard and for a long time, he himself asked God for death.
- Yes throw you about it! Vasya, you know what, let me go to bed with you today ...
- Why is this? What am I, a girl or something, to protect me. If you need it, I'll call. Go to sleep.
These were his last words, in the morning he was found sleeping eternal sleep.

Based on the book by Varazdat Stepanyan “Dying Words famous people”, Faculty of Philology Petersburg state university, 2002. Illustrations prepared by designer Marina Provotorova

Many of us would like to leave a mark on history and know that we will be remembered even when we are gone. But even final chord must be played perfectly. However, since we do not know when that hour will come, we will not have time to think of what to say. But some seem to have succeeded. I wonder how some famous personalities did not blunder even at the last moment. Some of the quotes below are quite funny, others are brilliant with wisdom.

Winston Churchill

Even passing away, the Prime Minister of Great Britain did not change his dry wit. Churchill left this world, saying that he was "bored" here.

Joan Crawford

The sharpness characteristic of Crawford did not leave her even in her dying hour. According to her housekeeper, before her death, Joan said: "Don't you dare ask God to help me."

Buddy Rich

But Buddy Rich managed to joke before his death. He died in 1987 after an operation, and his last words were in response to a nurse asking if he was allergic to something. The musician replied that he was in country music.

Pancho Villa

The rebel, one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution, clearly wanted to say something epic before his death. Otherwise, why did he tell reporters, dying from a bullet, to say that he "said something"?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Chekhov was right when he spoke of brevity. Arthur Conan Doyle said only two words, but they are so memorable. They were addressed to his wife and sounded like "You are beautiful."

George Harrison

True wisdom was dropped by George Harrison before his death. His words were: "Love one another."

James French

The dying statements of executed criminals are always recorded, although they rarely deserve attention. James French is an exception. This killer was executed in the electric chair. His words became the headline for many articles that followed: "French fries!" ("French fries", but literally - "fried French").

V.S. fields

The comedian, before his death, as well as the author of Sherlock Holmes, turned to his beloved. But his statement is much more interesting: "Damn the whole world and everyone in it, except for you, Carlotta."

Chico Marks

And Marx was among those who turned to their soulmate. Chico gave her peculiar instructions: to place "a deck of cards, a hockey stick and a cute blonde" in his coffin.

Groucho Marx

Marx's brother, Groucho, was a witty man. Dying, he said: "This is not the way to live!"

Bing Crosby

There are those who, looking back at their lives, remembered only the good. Crosby, for example, said about this "It was a great game of golf!"

Voltaire

Voltaire was not religious and did not change his beliefs even on his deathbed. When the priest asked him to renounce the devil, the philosopher said that now "is not the time to make new enemies."

Leonardo Da Vinci

The problem with being a perfectionist is that you are always unsatisfied with your work, even when you die. So Da Vinci self-critically put it: "I offended God and people, because my work is not as high quality as it should be."

Ramo

Once a composer, always a composer. That is why Rameau's last words contained complaints about singing in his honor: "You are out of tune."

Nostradamus

The predictor was not mistaken in his dying words. When he said, "I won't be here tomorrow," he was absolutely right.

Mozart

Poetic words - just in the spirit of the true creator. "The taste of death is on my lips. I feel something not from this earth."

Marie Antoinette

The famous queen of France ended her life on the guillotine, great figure, the idol of many women. Climbing the scaffold, Marie Antoinette stepped on her executioner's foot. That is why her dying statement: “Forgive me, monsignor” (orig. “Pardonnez-moi, monsieur”)

Jack Daniel

Ideal parting words ended up with Jack Daniel. Founder of the popular alcoholic drink famous brand could not say otherwise than: "Pour the last one, please."

(from) stale sounds don't remember the sounds

Vaslav Nijinsky, Anatole France, Garibaldi, Byron whispered the same word before their death: "Mother!"

- "And now don't believe everything I said, because I am a Buddha, but check everything for own experience. Be your own guiding light" - the last words of the Buddha

- "It's done" - Jesus

Winston Churchill was very tired of life by the end, and his last words were: "How I'm tired of all this"

Oscar Wilde died in a room with tasteless wallpaper. The approaching death did not change his attitude to life. After the words: "Killer coloring! One of us will have to get out of here", he left

Alexandre Dumas: "So I won't know how it will end"

James Joyce: "Is there a soul here who can understand me?"

Alexander Blok: "Russia ate me like a stupid pig of its own pig"

François Rabelais: "I'm going to look for the great "Maybe"

Somerset Maugham: "Dying is a boring and dreary thing. My advice to you is never do it"

Anton Chekhov died in the German resort town of Badenweiler. The German doctor treated him to champagne (according to the ancient German medical tradition, a doctor who put his colleague fatal diagnosis, puts champagne to the dying). Chekhov said "Ich sterbe", drank the glass to the bottom, and said: "I haven't drunk champagne for a long time"

Henry James: "Well, finally, I was honored"

American prose writer and playwright William Saroyan: "Everyone is destined to die, but I always thought that they would make an exception for me. So what?"

Heinrich Heine: "God forgive me. This is his job"

Last words Johann Goethe is widely known: "Open wider the shutters, more light!". But not everyone knows that before that he asked the doctor how much he still had left, and when the doctor replied that there was one hour left, Goethe sighed with relief: "Thank God, only an hour"

Boris Pasternak: "Open the window"

Victor Hugo: "I see a black light"

Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Leave me alone"

Saltykov-Shchedrin: "Is that you, fool?"

- "Well, why are you roaring? Did you think I was immortal?" - "Sun King" Louis XIV

Countess Dubarry, favorite of Louis XV, ascending the guillotine, said to the executioner: "Try not to hurt me!"

- "Doctor, I still won't die, but not because I'm afraid," said the first american president George Washington

Queen Marie Antoinette, climbing the scaffold, stumbled and stepped on the executioner's foot: "Excuse me, please, monsieur, I did it by accident"

Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle: "So this is what it is, this death!"

Composer Edvard Grieg: "Well, if it's inevitable..."

Nero: "What great artist dies!"

Balzac before his death remembered one of his literary heroes, an experienced Bianchon doctor and said: "He would have saved me"

Leonardo da Vinci: "I insulted God and people! My works have not reached the height to which I aspired!"

Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her and said, "I'm ready, boys."

Philosopher Immanuel Kant: "Das ist gut"

One of the brothers-filmmakers, 92-year-old Auguste Lumiere: "My film is running out"

American businessman Abrahim Hewitt tore off the mask of the oxygen apparatus and said: "Leave it! I'm already dead ..."

spanish general, statesman Ramon Narvaez, when asked by the confessor whether he asks for forgiveness from his enemies, smiled wryly and replied: "I have no one to ask for forgiveness. All my enemies have been shot."

When the Prussian king Frederick I died, the priest at his bedside read prayers. At the words "I came into this world naked and I will leave naked," Friedrich pushed him away with his hand and exclaimed: "Do not dare to bury me naked, not in dress uniform!".

Mikhail Romanov before the execution gave the executioners his boots - "Use, guys, after all, royal"

Sick Anna Akhmatova after an injection of camphor: "Still, I feel very bad!"

Ibsen, after lying paralyzed for several years, stood up and said: "On the contrary!" - and died.

Nadezhda Mandelstam to her nurse: "Don't be afraid!"

Lytton Strachey: "If this is death, I don't like it"

James Thurber: "God bless you, damn it!"

Paulette Brilat-Savarin, the sister of the famous French deli, on her 100th birthday, after the third course, feeling the approach of death, said: "Serve compote quickly - I'm dying"

The famous English surgeon Joseph Green, as a medical habit, measured his pulse. "The pulse is gone," he said.

The famous English director Noel Howard, feeling that he was dying, said: " Goodnight, my dear. See you tomorrow"

Einstein's last words remained unknown because the nurse did not understand German.

None of us like death. None of us likes to talk about it (teenagers are not taken into account, because these creatures are not yet ripe for such conversations at all). Some claim that they are not at all afraid of death, while others, on the contrary, are horrified at the mere thought that their life will someday end.

"Tomorrow I will die, and you with me"

“When my beloved grandmother was dying, someone had to be in the room with her all the time. The guard was changed three times a day. One night my dear cousin volunteered to babysit her. They got along pretty well while she was still well, and when he volunteered to babysit her, everyone immediately knew that they would chat all night, or he would start rereading her favorite book to her. The house Granny lived in was a little creepy. The light in the hallway was constantly flickering, and in the guest bedroom it could even turn off for several hours. I loved my grandma, but I didn't really want to stay overnight in that creepy house.

According to the cousin, the night he stayed at her house, the grandmother abruptly got out of bed at about one in the morning. When he returned from the kitchen, he saw that she was standing on the second floor in one nightgown and, in the truest sense of the word, making faces at someone. When my cousin asked her what was really going on, she replied: “I just want the man who is standing on the stairs to pay attention to me!” The next day, my cousin stayed with Grandma again, and when the clock was about six in the evening, Grandma called him over and said, “Nothing really matters. Tomorrow I will die, and you will be with me." He called us urgently and said he couldn't babysit granny anymore, and I totally understand him." - peppermint_toad.

"Why are they here?"

“When my grandmother died, my mother was always next to her bed. Once I heard their conversation, in which my grandmother constantly asked the same question to my mother: “Why are they here?”. I was seriously frightened, but as my mother later explained to me, it was a kind of transition from the world of the living to world of the dead» – feegleshmaken.

“I see the line. Tell your mom that I'll be back"

“I am a paramedic by profession and have seen a lot of things over the years. The first incident I want to tell you about happened not so long ago. One elderly lady, grabbing my hand, began to talk about the fact that next to her was a headless man and some girl. They want to take her away, but she won't go to heaven. By the way, that night she died from internal bleeding. The second time I will never forget. Back when I was just starting to work, we were called because there was a major car accident. When we arrived at the scene, we saw that the woman who was driving survived with virtually no injuries, but her nine-year-old son was bleeding. When we rushed him to the hospital, he looked at me and said, “I see the line. Tell your mom that I'll be back." His eyes closed smoothly and we began resuscitation, but he never survived” – medic1947.

"Help, they're torturing me"

“I work in a hospital as a resuscitator, and when your patient dies, it's always hard. Once, a girl came to me in a very serious condition. She had numerous injuries to her head, pelvis, arms, and so on. I won't bore you with talking about injuries. So, when I was around, she half-deliriously pulled me by the sleeve and opened her eyes so wide, as if she saw something terrible. All I could hear before her heart stopped was, "Help, they're torturing me." I still feel uncomfortable about this incident” – Ephy_Chan.

"The devil was in my room all night, but don't worry, God is with you"

““The devil was in my room all night, but don’t worry, God is with you” - this is the phrase repeated by one patient of our hospital who was dying. Toward morning he had a terrible attack, and he died with a wide open eyes and with a terrible grimace on his face. He also screamed about the "Devil" all night long and said over and over, "Get out of here! Get out of here!" This building is going to explode!” – Coyena.

“I have faced death many times before”

“This guy was going to have breakfast and he refused to check his blood glucose. Since we were already familiar with his medical history, we suspected that he might need insulin. I expressed my concern, but he answered me: "I have faced death many times." By the way, the guy did not lie, he was really seriously ill and for the past six months he has practically gone blind. I came back 30 minutes later to check it out. He was unconscious and turned almost blue. We immediately took him to intensive care, although it was clear to the naked eye that he was in a deep coma, and his brain was most likely already dead. He was on life support for another week, and then his relatives finally decided to turn him off” – Damnmorrisdancer.

"And now do not believe everything that I have said, because I am the Buddha, but check everything on your own experience. Be your own guiding light" - the last words of the Buddha

"It's Done" - Jesus

At the beginning of the 19th century, the granddaughter of the famous Japanese warrior Shingen, one of the most beautiful girls Japan, a subtle poetess, a favorite of the Empress, wanted to learn Zen. Several famous masters rejected her because of her beauty. Master Hakou said, "Your beauty will be the source of all problems." Then she burned her face with a red-hot iron and became Hakou's apprentice. She took the name Rionen, which means "clearly understand".

Before her death, she wrote a short poem:

Sixty six times those eyes
We could enjoy autumn.
Ask nothing.
Listen to the hum of the pines in complete calm

Winston Churchill was very tired of life by the end, and his last words were: "How I'm tired of all this"

Oscar Wilde died in a room with tasteless wallpaper. The approaching death did not change his attitude to life. After the words: "Killer coloring! One of us will have to get out of here", he left

Alexandre Dumas: "So I won't know how it will end"

James Joyce: "Is there a soul here who can understand me?"

Alexander Blok: "Russia ate me like a stupid pig of its own pig"

François Rabelais: "I'm going to look for the great "Maybe"

Ernst Herter. Dying Achilles

Somerset Maugham: "Dying is boring and dreary. My advice to you is never do it"

Anton Chekhov died in the German resort town of Badenweiler. A German doctor treated him to champagne (according to the old German medical tradition, a doctor who has diagnosed his colleague with a fatal diagnosis treats a dying man to champagne). Chekhov said "Ich sterbe", drank the glass to the bottom, and said: "I haven't drunk champagne for a long time"

Henry James: "Well, finally, I was honored"

American prose writer and playwright William Saroyan: "Everyone is destined to die, but I always thought that they would make an exception for me. So what?"

Heinrich Heine: "God forgive me. This is his job"

The last words of Johann Goethe are widely known: "Open wider the shutters, more light!". But not everyone knows that before that he asked the doctor how much he still had left, and when the doctor replied that there was one hour left, Goethe sighed with relief: "Thank God, only an hour"

Boris Pasternak: "Open the window"

Victor Hugo: "I see a black light"

Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Leave me alone"

Saltykov-Shchedrin: "Is that you, fool?"

"Well, why are you crying? Did you think I was immortal?" - "Sun King" Louis XIV

Hendrik Goltzius. Dying Adonis

Countess Dubarry, favorite of Louis XV, ascending the guillotine, said to the executioner: "Try not to hurt me!"

"Doctor, I still won't die, but not because I'm afraid," said the first American president, George Washington.

Queen Marie Antoinette, climbing the scaffold, stumbled and stepped on the executioner's foot: "Excuse me, please, monsieur, I did it by accident"

Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle: "So this is what it is, this death!"

Composer Edvard Grieg: "Well, if it's inevitable..."

Nero: "What a great artist is dying!"

Balzac, before his death, remembered one of his literary heroes, an experienced doctor Bianchon, and said: "He would have saved me."

Leonardo da Vinci: "I insulted God and people! My works have not reached the height to which I aspired!"

Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her and said, "I'm ready, boys."

Philosopher Immanuel Kant: "Das ist gut"

One of the brothers-filmmakers, 92-year-old Auguste Lumiere: "My film is running out"

Lytton Strachey: "If this is death, I don't like it"

The Spanish general, statesman Ramon Narvaez, when asked by the confessor whether he asked for forgiveness from his enemies, smiled wryly and replied: "I have no one to ask for forgiveness. All my enemies have been shot."

American businessman Abrahim Hewitt tore off the mask of the oxygen apparatus and said: "Leave it! I'm already dead ..."

The famous English surgeon Joseph Green, as a medical habit, measured his pulse. "The pulse is gone," he said.

The famous English director Noel Howard, feeling that he was dying, said: "Good night, my dears. See you tomorrow."