Dying Sayings by Famous People
Tate de l’armee – Napoleon.
I have loved God, my father, liberty. – De Stael.
Let me die to the sound of delicious music - Mirabeau.
Is this your fidelity? – Nero.
I must sleep now – Byron.
Kiss me, Hardy – Nelson.
Don’t give up the ship – Lawrence.
I’m shot if I don’t believe I’m dying – Thurlow.
Clasp my hand, my dear friend, I die – Alfieri.
God preserve the emperor – Haydn.
The artery ceases to beat – Haller.
Let the light enter – Goethe.
All my possessions for a moment of time – Elizabeth.
What, is there no bribing death. – Beaufort.
Monks, monks, monks! – Henry VIII.
Be serious – Grotius.
I feel as if I were myself again – Walter Scott.
It is well – Washington.
Independence forever – Adams.
A dying man can do nothing easy – Franklin.
Don’t let poor Netty starve. – Charles II.
I have endeavoured to do my duty. – Taylor.
There is not a drop of blood on my hand – Frederick V.
I resign my soul to God, my daughter to my country – Jefferson.
It is the last of earth. J.Q. Adams.
Don’t let that awkward squad fire over my grave. – Burns.
Lord, make haste – H. Hammond.
Precious salvation. Sir J Stonehouse.
I have sent for you (Lord Warwick) to see how a Christian can die – Addison.
I shall be happy – Archbishop Sharpe.
God’s will be done. – Bishop Ren.
Amen. – Bishop Bull
I have peace – Parkhurst.
Come, Lord Jesus – Burkill.
I thank God I was brought up in the Church of England. – Bishop Gunning.
O Lord, forgive me specially me sins of omission. – Usher.
Lord, receive my spirit. – Ferrar, Grammer, Hooper, H Herbert.
Thy will be done. – Donne.
This day let me see the Lord Jesus. – Jewell
And is this death? – George IV.
Lord, take my spirit – Edward VI.
What! do the run already? Then I die happy. – Wolfe.
God bless you, my dear (Miss Morris) – Dr. Johnson.
What I cannot utter with my mouth, accept Lord, from my heart and soul. – F Quarles.
Then I am safe. – Cromwell.
Let the earth be filled with His Glory. – James, Earl of Derby, Bishop of Broughton.
I go to my God and Saviour – P. Heylyn.
My days are past as a shadow that returns not. – R. Hooker.
Let me hear once more those notes, so long my solace and delight – Mozart.
I wish the true principles of government carried out; I ask no more. - Harrison.
For my coming down, let me shift for myself (on the seaffold) – Sir T. More.
In me behold the end of this world with all its vanities. – Sir P. Sydney.
