Last words before death. Last words before the death of celebrities

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 the final chord must be played perfectly. However, since we don’t know when that very hour will come, we won’t have time to think of what to say. But some apparently succeeded. It is interesting how some famous personalities did not make a mistake even at their last moment. Some of the quotes below are quite funny, others are brilliant with wisdom.

Winston Churchill

Even when he passed away, the British Prime Minister did not change his dry wit. Churchill left this world, saying that he was “bored” here.

Joan Crawford

Crawford's characteristic harshness 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 surgery, and his last words were in response to a nurse asking if he was allergic to anything. The musician replied that it was country music.

Pancho Villa

The rebel, one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution, clearly wanted to say something epic before his death. Why else would he tell reporters, while dying from a bullet, to say he "said something"?

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

George Harrison

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

James French

The dying remarks of executed criminals are always recorded, although they rarely deserve attention. James French is an exception. This murderer was executed in the electric chair. His words became the headline for many subsequent articles: "French fries!" (“french fries”, but literally “toasted French”).

V.S. Fields

Before his death, the comedian, like 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 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 no way to live!”

Bing Crosby

There are also those who, looking back at their lives, remember only the good things. Crosby, for example, said, “That 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 was “not the time to make new enemies.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

The problem with being a perfectionist is that you are never satisfied with your work, even when you are dying. So Da Vinci expressed himself self-critically: “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's why Rameau's last words contained complaints about singing in his honor: "You are out of tune."

Nostradamus

The fortuneteller was not mistaken in his dying words. When he said, “Tomorrow I won’t be here anymore,” he turned out to be absolutely right.

Mozart

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

Marie Antoinette

The famous queen of France, a great figure, an idol of many women, ended her life on the guillotine. While 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

Jack Daniel had the perfect parting words. The creator of a popular brand of alcoholic drink could not say otherwise than: “Pour the last one, please.”

Lesha Samokhin was a talented person - a journalist, musician and doctor. Saving the lives of many, he himself died young - in the best traditions of poets, at 37 years old. His most striking legacy is the amazing text “ Last words" In memory of Alexey, we are publishing it.

The boomerang, whatever its flight, must return back. If you put your hand on your pulse, you will feel the countdown starting at the moment of your birth. Someday you will definitely die. All your life, unless you are mute, you speak. You say words, words about words... Someday, what you say will be your last word. What follows below are the last words I listened to during five years of working in the hospital. At first I wrote them down in a notebook so as not to forget. Then I realized that I was remembering it forever, and I stopped writing it down. This is by no means all, I just selected...

At first, when I stopped working at the hospital, I regretted that I could now hear such things extremely rarely. Only later did I realize that the last words can be heard from living people. It is enough just to listen more closely and understand that most of them will not say anything more.

Wash the currants, son, they just came from the garden...

A., 79 years old

But he is still more intelligent than you...

V., 47 years old

An elderly, very rich Azerbaijani woman who threw a tantrum that she wanted to see her son. They were given ten minutes to talk, and when I came to escort him out of the department, I heard the last thing she said to him. After he left, she looked at everyone rather angrily, did not speak to anyone, and an hour later she died as a result of cardiac arrest.

Hands off, armed gang! You swore eternal friendship to me!

G., 44 years old

It was some old Jew in complete insanity. On the first day after the operation, apparently after anesthesia, he confessed his love to everyone, and on the second he decided that we were “an evil gang who disguised themselves as people of a sacred profession.” He cursed all day and by the evening, without ceasing to curse, he died.

I’ve already sprayed myself with this *** [garbage] five hundred times!

D., 66 years old

Some mechanic died from an attack of bronchial asthma before my eyes. This is the only thing he managed to tell me, showing me a bottle of an inhalant that dilates the airways. Then he collapsed on the floor.

E., 34 years old

Potassium was the cause of his death. The nurse did not set the speed of the drip, and the lightning-fast administration of potassium caused cardiac arrest. Apparently, he felt this, because when I ran into the hall at the signal of the instruments, he raised his index finger and, pointing to an empty jar, informed me what was in it was. This, by the way, was the only case of potassium overdose out of several dozen in my practice, which resulted in death.

How aware are you of what you are doing? Write to me on a piece of paper how aware you are of what you are doing now...

J., 53 years old

J. was a hydraulic engineer. He suffered from hypochondriacal delirium, asking everyone and everything about the mechanism of action of each pill and “why it itches here and pricks here.” I asked the doctors to sign their notebook for each injection. To be honest, he died because of the *** [carelessness] of the nurse: either she mixed up the cardiotonic, or its dose... I don’t remember. I only remember what he said at the end.

This young man had one of the “youngest” heart attacks in Moscow. He constantly asked only to “p-i-t...” and said, placing his hand on the area of ​​his heart, that he was in great pain. His mother said he was under a lot of stress. Three days later, the youngest death from myocardial infarction was registered. He died repeating these words...

I., 8 years old

A girl who spoke only these two words for two weeks after liver surgery. She died while on my watch.

There was a better condition...

K., 46 years old

A patient who, after two unconscious months, asked to deflate the cuff on his tracheostomy, convincing everyone that he definitely needed to say something. Having croaked these two words, he lost consciousness again and never came to his senses.

I am a relative of Igor Langno.

L., 28 years old

He was a blond Baltic guy with a severe heart defect named Igor Langno.

Larisa, Lara, Larisa...

M., 45 years old

M. had a repeated extensive myocardial infarction. He died and agonized for three days, all the while holding onto his wedding ring with the fingers of his other hand and repeating his wife's name. When he died, I took off this ring to give it away.

Don't stand at my cold feet.

N., 74 years old

This grandmother told everyone that they were “strangers” to her. She said her last phrase proudly and slightly angrily. She told me during the night rounds, refusing treatment. After that, she pointedly turned away from the wall and fell asleep. In the morning, her roommates discovered her, dying in this position. I really didn’t have to stand at her cold feet.

Girls, buy me two Wheels Wagons, please. Your wife will give you the money. To the seagull. Thank you.

O., 57 years old

A precocious-looking diabetic who, fearing that he had been accidentally given a glucose drip, injected himself with an “overdose” of insulin. At this time, the nurses went outside to the store, and he asked them to buy him a chocolate bar to raise his sugar level. After this, he lost consciousness from hypoglycemia. He never came to his senses. They brought chocolates when he had already died. My wife never gave me the money.

You are a doctor... Therefore, it will be so, as you tell me.

P., 44 years old

An intelligent, gray-haired Georgian who constantly shook hands in a friendly manner with everyone who approached him, repeating that he trusted everyone and believed in everyone. He said these words after an injection of morphine, before they put on an oxygen mask. During his sleep, he developed ventricular fibrillation. They shocked him thirty times. Then my heart stopped. They didn't start it.

Of course, I have become a bit old...

R., 62 years old

An asthenic grandfather with a gray bald spot, who was successfully recovering from coronary artery bypass surgery. He lay alone in a single room and constantly tossed and turned in bed so that the sheets crumpled and had to be pulled on regularly. He complained about his age, grunting, just at that moment, waddling from side to side. He had no complications. I gave him an injection of Relanium to make him sleep. He died in his sleep - apparently “of old age.”

If I recover normally and my heart grows back, I can bring you some real high boots from the North. You can go hunting in high boots, so you won’t know grief in Moscow. If there is no rejection, like the submariner’s, then you can visit me. There are times there when the sun does not set over the horizon. I try to go there, I try to go back... It will hover a centimeter from the horizon - and back. There I will arrange a celebration of life for you. I'll take you to the hills. You’ll relax so much in our north that you won’t want to go south. Okay, I’ll sleep, I’ll sleep... When I sleep, I don’t seem to be so anxious... Be careful with the electrodes, otherwise I woke up in the morning, nothing was moving... Well, I think that’s it... Yes, that’s just me, what am I going to tell you, you all know...

S., 43 years old

During this story, the nurse administered a sleeping pill, on which he fell asleep. This patient was a mustachioed resident of the Far North. He came to Moscow with a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy, which has only one treatment option - a heart transplant, after which we were on duty with him. “Submariner” is his friend from the squad, who spent his entire life serving on a submarine, who died during a crisis of rejection, a month after the operation. He had the same indications for a transplant, which he brought himself to by making a vow to “fuck a hundred women” and breaking down on 76th.S. didn’t even make it to the crisis. He died seven or eight hours later from some kind of fulminant infection. I remember that there was a big scandal with surgeons who reproached us for not maintaining sterility. I think they even called the SES...

The Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle, dying, calmly said: “So this is what this death is like!”

Composer Edvard Grieg: "Well, if this is inevitable..."

Queen Marie Antoinette was completely calm before her execution. While ascending the scaffold, she stumbled and stepped on the executioner’s foot: “Please forgive me, monsieur, I did it by accident...”.

The Roman emperor and tyrant Nero cried out before his death: “What a great artist is dying!”

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

When the Prussian king Frederick I was dying, the priest read prayers at his bedside. At the words “naked I came into this world and naked I will leave,” Frederick pushed him away with his hand and exclaimed: “Don’t you dare bury me naked, not in dress uniform!”

Dying, Balzac recalled one of the characters in his stories, the experienced doctor Bianchon: “He would have saved me...”.

At the last moment before death the great Leonardo da Vinci exclaimed: “I insulted God and people! My works did not reach the heights to which I aspired!”

Before his execution, Mikhail Romanov gave his boots to the executioners - “Use them, guys, they are royal after all.”

Spy-dancer Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her: “I’m ready, boys.”

The philosopher Immanuel Kant said: “Das ist gut.”

Sick Anna Akhmatova after a camphor injection: “Still, I feel very bad!”

One of the filmmaker brothers, 92-year-old O. Lumiere: “My film is running out.”

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.”

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

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev died on August 22, 1883 at the age of 65 in the town of Bougival near Paris. His last words were strange: “Farewell, my dears, my whitish ones...”.
There were no grief-stricken relatives standing around the dying man’s bed: despite several romances he had experienced, the writer never married, spending his life in the ambiguous role of a faithful friend of Pauline Viardot’s family. The death of Turgenev, who, by his own admission, spent his entire life “huddling on the edge of someone else’s nest,” was in some ways similar to the death of his famous hero, Yevgeny Bazarov. Both were escorted into another world by a woman who was dearly loved and never completely belonged to them.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky woke up at dawn on January 28, 1881 with a clear awareness that today was the last day of his life. He waited silently for his wife to wake up. Anna Grigorievna did not believe her husband’s words, because the day before he was better. But Dostoevsky insisted that a priest be brought, took communion, confessed, and soon died.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died on the night of July 2, 1904 in a hotel room in the German resort town of Badenweiler. The German doctor decided that death was already behind him. According to the ancient German medical tradition, a doctor who has given his colleague a fatal diagnosis treats the dying man with champagne... Anton Pavlovich said in German: “I am dying” - and drank a glass of champagne to the bottom.
The writer's wife, Olga Leonardovna, would later write that the “terrible silence” of that night when Chekhov died was broken only by “a huge black moth, which painfully beat against the burning night lamps and dangled around the room.”

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy last days spent his life in a remote place railway station Astapovo. At the age of 83, the count decided to break with the orderly, prosperous existence in Yasnaya Polyana. Accompanied by his daughter and the family doctor, he left incognito, in a third-class carriage. On the way, I caught a cold and developed pneumonia.
Tolstoy’s last words, spoken by him on the morning of November 7, 1910, already in oblivion, were: “I love the truth” (according to another version, he said “I don’t understand”).

The last word of the executed Beria was short: “Beasts!”

“Burn does not mean refute!” – the dying words of Giordano Bruno.

"Stalin will come!" – the dying words of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

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

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

Lenin died with his mind darkened. 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 I don’t need anything else!”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov before leaving for better world, asked for champagne, tasted it and said with a happy look: “It’s been a while since I drank champagne.” Then he lay down on the sofa and said in German: “Ich sterbe” - “I’m dying.” He died as a true doctor, stating the fact of the death of his patient, which in this case was himself.

Pushkin’s last words were said in French: “I must put my house in order” - “Il faut que je derange ma maison.”

The great Russian thinker Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov. A completely different situation. 1919 Russia is engulfed in the nightmare of revolution and civil war. A hungry writer and philosopher, who created books that will be studied by posterity, is unable to think about the eternal and great before his death and mutters only one thing: “Bread and butter! Sour cream!

Nicholas I, the mighty Tsar, whom ungrateful descendants will remember only as “Nicholas Palkin,” died with extraordinary dignity. Knowing that his days were numbered, he, having received the Holy Mysteries, valiantly endured severe pain, and when his son Alexander was brought 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, who was blown up by a terrorist, would be brought to Winter Palace with his legs torn off, bleeding and unconscious.

The famous English surgeon Joseph Green, dying, measured his pulse as a doctor's habit. “The pulse is gone,” he managed to say before his death.

Beethoven's last words on March 26, 1827 were: “Applaud, friends, the comedy is over.”

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

Alexandre Dumas: “So I won’t know how it all ends.”

Alexander Blok: “Russia ate me like a stupid pig of its own.”

Saltykov-Shchedrin: “Is that you, fool?”

Queen Marie Antoinette, climbing the scaffold, stumbled and stepped on the executioner’s foot: “Please forgive me, monsieur, I did it by accident.”

Before his death, Balzac remembered one of his literary heroes, the skilled physician 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 a God. He is punishing me for my sins."

The last words of the dying have always been treated with special reverence. What does a person who is on the verge between two worlds feel and see?... The last words of great people were simple, mysterious, strange. Someone expressed their greatest regret, and someone found the strength to joke. What did Genghis Khan, Byron and Chekhov say before they died?

The last phrase of Emperor Caesar went down in history slightly distorted. We all know that Caesar allegedly said: “And you, Brutus?” In fact, judging by the surviving texts of historians, this phrase could have sounded a little differently - it did not convey indignation, but rather regret. They say that the emperor said to Marcus Brutus who rushed at him: “And you, my child?...”

The last words of Alexander the Great were prophetic; it was not without reason that the ruler was known as an excellent strategist. Dying of malaria, Makedonsky said: “I see there will be big competitions at my grave.” And so it happened: the great empire he built was literally torn to pieces in internecine wars.

“Batu will continue my victories, and the Mongol hand will stretch over the universe,” Genghis Khan said on his deathbed. The last words of Martin Luther King were: “God, how painful and scary it is to leave for another world.” “Well, I’m going to bed,” said George Gordon Bayorn, and then fell asleep forever. According to another version, before his death the poet exclaimed: “My sister! My child... Poor Greece!... I gave her time, fortune, health... And now I give her my life.” As is known, last year The rebellious poet spent his life helping the Greeks in the liberation struggle against the Ottoman Empire. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was dying of consumption in a hotel in the German resort town of Badenweiler. His attending physician felt that Chekhov's death was near. According to an old German tradition, a doctor who has given his colleague a fatal diagnosis treats the dying man with champagne. "Ich sterbe!" (“I’m dying!”) Chekhov said and drank the glass of champagne served to him to the bottom.

“Hope!... Hope! Hope!... Damned!”, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky shouted before his death. Perhaps the composer was delirious, or perhaps he was desperately clinging to life. "So what's the answer?" - asked the American writer Gertrude Stein philosophically as she was taken on a gurney to the operating room. Stein was dying of cancer, which had previously killed her mother. Having received no answer, she asked again:

"What's the question then?" She never woke up from the anesthesia. Peter the Great was dying unconscious. Once, having come to his senses, the sovereign took the stylus and began to scratch with effort: “Give me everything...”. But the sovereign did not have time to explain to whom and what. The monarch ordered to call his beloved daughter Anna, but was unable to say anything to her. The next day, at the beginning of six o'clock in the morning, the emperor opened his eyes and whispered a prayer. These were his last words. It is also known about the dying suffering of King Henry the Eighth of England. "The crown is gone, the glory is gone, the soul is gone!" - exclaimed the dying monarch. Vaslav Nijinsky,

Anatole France and Garibaldi whispered the same word before their death: “Mama!” Before her execution, Marie Antoinette behaved like a real queen. While climbing the stairs to the guillotine, she accidentally stepped on the executioner’s foot. Her last words were: “Forgive me, monsieur, I didn’t do it on purpose.” Empress Elizaveta Petrovna extremely surprised the doctors when, half a minute before her death, she stood up on her pillows and menacingly asked: “Am I still alive?!” But before the doctors had time to get scared, the situation “corrected” - the ruler gave up the ghost.

They say that Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov, the brother of the last emperor, gave his boots to the executioners before his execution with the words: “Use them, guys, they are royal after all.” The famous spy, dancer and courtesan Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her with the playful words: “I’m ready, boys!” Dying, Balzac remembered one of the characters in his stories, the experienced doctor Bianchon. “He would have saved me,” sighed great writer. The English historian Thomas Carlyle calmly said: “So this is what it is, this death!” Composer Edvard Grieg turned out to be equally cold-blooded.

“Well, what if it’s inevitable,” he said. It is believed that Ludwig van Beethoven's last words were: "Applaud, friends, the comedy is over." True, some biographers cite other words of the great composer: “I feel as if up to this moment I had written only a few notes.” If the latter fact is true, then Beethoven was not the only great man who, before his death, lamented how little he had accomplished. They say that, dying, Leonardo da Vinci exclaimed in despair: “I insulted God and people! My works did not reach the heights to which I aspired!”

One of the famous filmmaker brothers, 92-year-old Auguste Lumière, said: “My film is running out.” “Dying is a boring task,” Somerset Maugham finally quipped. “Don’t ever do it!” Dying in the town of Bougival near Paris, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev said a strange thing: “Farewell, my dears, my whitish ones...”.

The French artist Antoine Watteau was horrified: “Take this cross away from me! How could you depict Christ so poorly!” - and with these words he died. The poet Felix Arver, having heard a nurse say to someone: “It’s at the end of the corridor,” from last bit of strength groaned: “Not a collidor, but a corridor!” - and died. Oscar Wilde, dying in his hotel room, looked longingly at the tasteless wallpaper and ironically remarked: “This wallpaper is terrible. One of us has to go.” Einstein's last words, unfortunately, remained a mystery to posterity: the nurse who was near his bed did not know German.
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