Dead words. Leave beautifully: the last words of great people

The war began on November 30, 1939 at 8 o'clock in the morning. First there was shelling, and then Soviet troops crossed the border. Border Kiasniaselka was occupied quickly, without a fight. The first losses appeared - a T-26 tank was blown up on a mine and the entire crew died. And the division rushed further to the west, because by Stalin's birthday it was necessary to complete the assigned combat mission.

By December 19, the 18th Infantry Division advanced 40 kilometers to the west and captured South Lemetti. There were first battles for the villages of Uoma and Lavajärvi. And the fighters faced the unusual tactics of the Finns - the column rested on a blockage arranged on the road, and as soon as the sappers started clearing, the shelling by snipers (cuckoos) began. Second, the method was rather psychological. Usually, in the morning, a group of skiers would emerge from the forest from two or three sides, shoot for five or ten minutes from behind the trees, and go back into the forest. The method is very efficient. The goal is to intimidate the enemy and create panic.

The last word of the shot Beria was a short one: "Cattle!"

"Burn - does not mean to refute!" Giordano Bruno's dying words.

"Stalin will come!" - dying words of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

The dying words attributed to Pavlov: “Academician Pavlov is busy. He is dying".

Peter the Great did not make a will about the heir. Dying, he ordered paper and pen to be given, but he could only write: “Give everything ...” - which gave rise to a long turmoil and a struggle for power.

Lenin died, being clouded in mind. He asked the table and chairs for forgiveness for his sins.

Count Leo Tolstoy said before his death: “I would like to hear the gypsies - and nothing more is needed!”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov before going to better world, asked for champagne, tasted it and said with a happy look: "It's been a long time since I drank champagne." Then he lay down on the sofa and said in German: "Ich sterbe" - "I am dying." He died like a true doctor, stating the fact of the death of his patient, whom in this case was himself.

Pushkin's last words were spoken in French: "I must put my house in order" - "Il faut que je derange ma maison".

The great Russian thinker Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov. Completely different situation. 1919 Russia is engulfed in the nightmare of revolution and civil war. The starving writer and philosopher, who created books that will be studied by posterity, is not able to think about the eternal and great before death and mutters only one thing: “Bread with butter! Sour cream!

Nicholas I, the mighty tsar, whom ungrateful descendants will remember only as "Nikolai Palkin," died with extraordinary dignity. Knowing that his days were numbered, having partake of the Holy Mysteries, he valiantly endured severe pain, and when they brought his son Alexander to him, he finally said: “Learn to die. Keep them all in your fist! He could not know that the death of his son would be terrible - Alexander II, blown up by a terrorist, would be brought to Winter Palace with severed legs, bleeding and unconscious.

The famous English surgeon Joseph Green, dying, measured his pulse out of medical habit. “The pulse is gone,” he managed to say before his death.

Beethoven's last words on March 26, 1827 were: "Applause friends, the comedy is over."

Winston Churchill, towards his end, was very tired of life and went into another world with the following phrase: “How tired I am of all this!”

Alexandre Dumas: “So I won’t know how it will end.”

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

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

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

Balzac before his death remembered one of his literary heroes, the skilled physician of Bianchon, and said: "He would have saved me."

Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her with the words: "I'm ready, boys."

Yagoda, People's Commissar of the NKVD, said before his death: “There must be God. He punishes me for my sins."

In the face of death, everyone thinks and talks about his own - someone says goodbye to relatives and friends, others try to do what they love to the very end, and still others do not find anything better than to utter some kind of barb against those present. Your attention - dying statements of individuals who, one way or another, left their mark on history.

Gustav Mahler, composer. He died in his bed. V last minutes life it seemed to him that he was conducting an orchestra and his final word was: "Mozart!".

Bessie Smith, singer: "I'm leaving, but I'm leaving in the name of the Lord."

Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer. The dying composer did not like the fact that the priest sang psalms at his deathbed and he declared: “Why the hell do I need all these songs, holy father? You are fake!"

Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, writer. In the last moments of his life, Sartre, referring to his beloved, Simone de Beauvoir, said: "I love you so much, my dear Beaver."

Nostradamus, doctor, alchemist, astrologer. The thinker's pre-death words, like many of his statements, turned out to be prophetic: "Tomorrow at dawn I will be gone." The prediction came true.

Vladimir Nabokov, writer. Besides literary activity, Nabokov was interested in entomology, in particular - the study of butterflies. His last words were: "Some butterfly has already taken off."

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. Stepping on the foot of the executioner, who was leading her to the scaffold, the queen said with dignity: “Please excuse me, monsieur. I did not mean to".

Empress Elizaveta Petrovna extremely surprised the doctors when, half a minute before her death, she rose on pillows and, as always, threateningly, asked: “Am I still alive ?!”. But before the doctors had time to get scared, everything got better by itself.

Benjamin Franklin, politician, diplomat, scientist, journalist. When his daughter asked 84-year-old seriously ill Franklin to lie down differently so that he could breathe easier, the old man, anticipating imminent end, grumpily said: "Nothing comes easily to a dying man."

Charles "Lucky" Luciano, gangster. Luciano died while filming a documentary about Sicilian mafia. His dying phrase was: "One way or another, I want to get into the movies." The last wish of the mafiosi came true - based on the life of Luciano, several feature films and documentaries, he was one of the few gangsters who died a natural death.

Arthur Conan Doyle, writer. The creator of Sherlock Holmes died in his garden of a heart attack at the age of 71. His last words were addressed to his beloved wife: “You are wonderful,” the writer said and died.

William Claude Fields, comedian, actor. dying great american said to his mistress Carlotta Monti: "May the Lord curse this whole damn world and everyone in it, except you, Carlotta."

Percy Granger, pianist, composer. On his deathbed, the composer last time confessed to his wife: "You are the only one I wanted."

Oscar McIntyre, journalist. When one of the most talented American journalists of the early 20th century was dying, he asked his wife, who turned away, unable to see her husband's agony: “My curious one, please turn here. I like admiring you."

John Wayne, actor Before dying, the 72-year-old actor, who is called the “king of the western,” found the strength to declare his love to his wife for the last time: “I know who you are. You are my girl, I love you."

Ernest Hemingway, writer. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway said to his wife: Goodnight, kitten". Then he went to his room, and a few minutes later his wife heard a loud jerky sound - the writer committed suicide with a shot in the head.

Eugene O'Neill, playwright, writer. In the last moments of his life, O'Neill exclaimed: “I knew it! I knew it! I was born in a hotel and I'm dying, damn it, in a hotel! Eugene O'Neill was born in a hotel room at the Broadway Hotel on October 16, 1888, and died at the Boston Hotel on November 27, 1953.

Josephine Baker, dancer, singer, actress. Josephine Baker knew how to have fun. All her life she gave people the joy of music and dance, and on the last night of her life, leaving the next party, this extraordinary woman said goodbye to the guests: “You are young, but you behave like old people. You are boring."

Leonard Marx, comedian, actor, brother of Gaucho Marx. Before his death, one of the famous comedian brothers reminded his wife: “Darling, do not forget what I asked you. Put a deck of cards and a pretty blonde in my coffin."

Wilson Mizner, playwright, entrepreneur. When to the dying Wilson with the words "Probably you want to talk to me?" a priest approached, Mizner, known for his sharp tongue, replied, “Why should I speak to you? I just spoke with your superiors."

Peter "Pistol Pete" Maravich, basketball player. The great American athlete collapsed with a heart attack right during a basketball game, having only time to say: "I feel great."

Joan Crawford, actress. With one foot in the grave, Joan turned to the housekeeper, who was reciting a prayer: “Damn it! Don't you dare ask God to help me!"

Bo Diddley, singer, founder of rock and roll. famous musician died while listening to "Walk Around Heaven" by American singer Patti LaBelle. According to eyewitnesses, before his death, Diddley said: "Wow!".

Charlie Chaplin, actor, screenwriter, composer, director. To the offer of the priest to pray that “the Lord would take his soul to himself”: “Why not? Besides, she still belongs to him."

Mata Hari, dancer, spy. Standing against the wall, waiting to be shot: “Everything is an illusion. I'm ready boys!"

Bob Marley, musician. Dying of cancer in an American hospital, the king of reggae told his sons Stephen and Ziggy: "Money can't buy life."

Frida Kahlo, artist: "I hope this is a joyful departure, and I will never return here again."
The most famous female artist in the world suffered all her life from a spinal injury received in her teenage years. car accident. Last years she could no longer get out of bed. Even in order to go to his first solo exhibition in Mexico.

Boris Pasternak, writer: "Open the window."

Academician Ivan Pavlov: “Academician Pavlov is busy. He is dying".

Count Leo Tolstoy said the last thing on his deathbed: "I would like to hear the gypsies - and nothing else is needed!"

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, on his deathbed, said something strange: "Farewell, my darlings, my whitish ones ...".

Dying, Honore de Balzac recalled one of the characters in his stories, an experienced doctor Bianchon: "He would have saved me ...".

Fedor Tyutchev, poet: “What a torment that you cannot find a word to convey a thought.”

Somerset Maugham, writer: “Dying is boring. Never do this!"

Doctors are people, if not constantly, then periodically faced with death. Philosophers also have a special attitude to death, nothing like it. Speakers are also very peculiar people, with its attitude to this phenomenon. What did they say before they died? Our study will show.

Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
Died in a foreign land. Before his death, his friends asked him if he would like his body to be transported to his homeland after death. “This is not at all necessary,” answered Anaxagoras, “after all, the path to underworld everywhere the same length.

Anaxarchus (IV century BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
Once at a feast at Alexander the Great, to the question: “How does he like the treat?” the philosopher replied that it would be nice to add the head of a tyrant to the table. By this, he hinted at Nikokriont, who was present at the feast (the king of the Cypriot city of Salamis, whose cruelty was legendary - author). He turned out to be vindictive, and after the death of Macedonian, he ordered Anaxarchus to be crushed in a mortar with iron pestles. dying words philosopher of steel catchphrase: "Talk, talk about Anaxarch's bodily shell, you can't pound Anaxarch himself!"

Henri Saint-Simon (1760-18250 - French utopian socialist
"Our business is in our hands..."

Aristotle (384-322 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato, educator of Alexander the Great
In his dying will, he ordered the fate of his children and gave freedom to several slaves.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
His friends asked where he would like to rest after death. “It doesn't matter. People who want to visit my grave will be able to find it, ”Schopenhauer replied.

Archimedes (287-212 BC) - ancient Greek scientist
When one of the Roman soldiers broke into the house of Archimedes, the scientist was busy solving a geometric problem, drawing figures in the sand. His last words to the invader: "Don't touch my blueprints!"

Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher
He asked that priests not be allowed to see him.

Vasily Rozanov (1856-1919) - Russian philosopher
Before his death, he said to his relatives: “Hug all of you ... Let's kiss in the name of the risen Christ. Christ is risen".

Vasily Tatishchev (1686-1750) - Russian historian, statesman
He knew exactly the day when he would die, despite the fact that he was not seriously ill. On the eve of his death, he ordered a grave to be dug for himself, confessed, took communion, and died a few hours later.

Voltaire (1694-1778) - French philosopher
Beside his deathbed, his faithful old servant was on duty. Before his death, Voltaire squeezed his hand and said: "Farewell, dear Morand, I'm dying."

Heraclitus (end of VI - beginning of V century BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
He asked the doctors if they could drain his body by removing water from it, and when they refused, he ordered the slaves to put him in the sun and cover him with manure. In this state, he died for two days.

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) - ancient Greek orator
He was pursued by Macedonian warriors, from whom he hid in the temple of Poseidon (the ancient Greek god of the sea - author). To the promise of one of them - Archius - not to harm him if he surrenders, Demosthenes replied: "Before, you could not, Archius, terminate me with your play in the theater, and now you will not deceive me with your promise ..." and took poison.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher
"The first step in philosophy is doubt."

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet
Was burned as a heretic. His last words: "Burn - does not mean to refute."

Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585-1619) - Italian philosopher, follower of Giordano Bruno
It was also burned. Before his death, he declared: “There is neither God nor the devil, because if there was a God, I would ask him to strike parliament with lightning as completely unrighteous, if there was a devil, I would ask him to swallow this parliament,

Diogenes of Sinope (about 400 - 323 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
He asked not to bury him. To the question: “How, to throw it to be eaten by beasts and vultures?” - answered: “Not at all! Put a stick next to me and I will drive them away.” The next question is: How? Will you feel? - was honored with such an answer: “And if I don’t feel it, then what do I care about the most biting animals?”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) French philosopher and writer
Before his death, he suffered severely from stomach pains. Shortly before his death, his wife brought him a cup of broth. Rousseau no longer has a mg. “My insides don’t take anything anymore, I can’t even take a sip ...” he groaned.

Jean Paul Sartre (105-1980) - French writer, philosopher, essayist
“I love you very much, dear,” these were his last words to his wife.

Julien Offrain de La Mettrie (1709-1751), French philosopher and physician
All my life I denied God. Before his death, the priest tried to return him to the bosom of the church. De La Mettrie replied: "What will they say about me if I recover?"

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist
He turned to the attending physician: “My dear Shur? Do you remember our first conversation? You promised not to leave me when my time comes. Now it's all just torture and doesn't make sense anymore." The doctor hastened the onset of death with the help of morphine.

Ibn Sina (980-1037) - Tajik scientist, philosopher, physician, musician, poet
Finally, he composed a quatrain and read it:
From black dust to heavenly bodies
I unraveled the mysteries the wisest words and affairs.
I avoided deceit, unraveled all the knots,
Only the knot of death I could not unravel ...

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher
"Good!"

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) - Swiss psychologist, founder of "English" (analytical) psychology
Shortly before his death, he had a dream, as well. waking up, he said: “Now I know almost the whole truth, except for one small detail. When I recognize her, I will already be dead.”

Confucius (551-479 BC) - ancient Chinese philosopher
“Who, after my death, will undertake the work of continuing my teaching?”

Li Zhi (1527-1602) - Chinese philosopher
They wanted to put him in jail for heretical views. But he snatched the sword from the guard and cut his own throat. To the question: "Why did you do it?" - answered: "What remains after seventy-five?"

Michel Nostradamus (1503-1566) - French physician and astrologer
At parting with a friend, he said: "You will not see me alive at sunrise."

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian philosopher, politician and historian
“After death, I want to go to hell, not heaven. There I can enjoy the company of popes, kings and dukes, while heaven is inhabited only by beggars, monks and apostles.”

Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) - Russian philosopher
Shortly before his death, he wrote in his diary: “I am very famous in Europe and America, even in Asia and Australia, translated into many languages, a lot was written about me. There is only one country in which I am almost not known - this is my homeland.

Nikolai Pirogov (1810-1881) - Russian surgeon
Before his death, he read the paraphrased Pushkin:
Not random, not in vain
The gift is mysterious, beautiful,
Life, you are given to me with a purpose!

Auguste Comte (1798-1757) French philosopher
Before his death, he declared himself an apostle and clergyman of a materialistic religion.

Omar Khayyam (circa 1040 - 1123) - Persian and Tajik poet, mathematician and philosopher
Having made evening prayer, he bowed to the ground and said: “O Allah, You know that I have known you to the best of my ability. Forgive me, my knowledge of You is my path to You."

Paul Tillich (1886-1965) German philosopher
On the morning of the day of death, he felt her approach and said to the doctor: “Today I will be a perfect ascetic. Yesterday I took a long time choosing my menu for today, but now I will not eat a single piece.

Pythagoras (about 570 - 500 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
Many were dissatisfied with his teachings. He decided to run. They chased after him. On his way was a field sown with beans. More than anything else, Pythagoras respected the work of other people. He stopped and said, "It's better to die than to trample on the beans!" Here he was killed.

Plato (427-347 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
When asked if they would write about him after his death, he replied: "It would be a good name, but there will be notes."

René Descartes (1596-1650) - French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and physiologist
"It's time to go, my soul ..."

Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) - Indian humanist thinker, religious reformer, public figure
“The older I get, the deeper I comprehend the meaning of the Indian idea that the highest of beings is man!”

Seneca (about 14 BC - 65 AD) - ancient Roman philosopher, educator of Emperor Nero
He committed suicide on the orders of Nero, opening his veins, but death did not occur. Then he took poison, which also did not work. Then he entered the hot bath and, splashing the slaves around him with water, said: "This is a retribution to Jupiter the Liberator."

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher
He asked to have a gravestone inscription made for him: "That One."

Socrates (470-399 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
Was sentenced to death. V Ancient Greece the condemned often carried out the sentence himself. Socrates took poison.
There are two versions of his dying words.
Version one. "But, it's time to go from here, I - to die, you - to live, and which of this is better, no one knows except God."
Version two. To the words of his wife: “You are dying innocently,” he answered: “Would you like to deserve it?”

Theophrastus (372-288 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher, naturalist
The disciples asked Theophrastus, who was lying on his deathbed, what he commanded them. His answer was worthy of a philosopher: “I have nothing to command you - except to say that many of life's pleasures are only apparently famous for such. As soon as we begin to live, we die, so there is nothing more useless than the pursuit of glory. Be prosperous, and either leave my science - for it requires a lot of work - or defend it with honor, and then you will be of great benefit. Life is more empty than useful. I no longer advise you how to behave; see for yourself what to do and what not to do.”

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) - English philosopher
“I am going on my last journey. I'm taking a giant leap into the dark."

Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) - Austrian physician
Before death, he asked to be played the glass harmonica that young Mozart played when he was in his house.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - English philosopher
I froze meat to see if the cold could prevent spoilage, and caught a bad cold. In his suicide letter he wrote: “I am threatened with the fate of Pliny, who approached Vesuvius in order to better observe the eruption.

Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) German philosopher
"God, just one hour of peace tonight."

Zhuang Zi (c. 369-286 B.C.) - ancient Chinese philosopher
When he learned before his death that his students wanted to give him a magnificent funeral, he said: “What is this for? The earth will be my coffin, the sky will be my sarcophagus, the sun and moon will be jade plaques, the stars will be pearls, and all living things will be a funeral procession; isn't everything ready for my funeral?"
The disciples answered: "We are afraid that you will not be pecked by crows and kites."
The following words of the philosopher became the answer to this: “Crows and kites will peck on the ground, ants and bears will devour them underground. So is it worth taking from some in order to give to others?

Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French utopian socialist
His last words were wishes good sleep doorkeeper.

Aesop (640-560 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher, fabulist
He was sentenced to death. Aesop had to throw himself off a cliff. Before doing so, he told his last fable:
“One man fell in love with his own daughter, and his passion brought him to such an extent that he sent his wife to the village, and his daughter seized and took possession of her by force. The daughter said: “Your unholy business, father, it would be better if I got a hundred men than you alone.” So I say to you, citizens of Delphia: it would be better for me to wander around Syria, Phenicia and Judea, than to die here unexpectedly at your hands.

Epicurus (341-270 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
He became famous for the fact that he considered sensory sensations, and not the mind, to be the main thing in life. Before his death, he took a bath, drank strong wine, wished his friends not to forget his teaching, and died.

Empress Elizaveta Petrovna extremely surprised the doctors when, half a minute before her death, she rose on pillows and, as always, threateningly, asked: “Am I still alive ?!”. But before the doctors had time to get scared, everything got better by itself.

Count Tolstoy said the last thing on his deathbed: “I would like to hear the gypsies - and nothing more is needed!”

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

Pavlov: “Academician Pavlov is busy. He is dying".