When you've dedicated your life to words, it's important to go out eloquently.
Ernest Hemingway
Spoken to his wife before he killed himself.
Jane Austen
In response to her sister, Cassandra, who was asking her if she wanted anything?
J.M. Barrie
Author of Peter Pan.
L. Frank Baum
The author of The Wizard Of Oz was referring to the Shifting Sands, the desert surrounding Oz.
Edgar Allan Poe
Thomas Hobbes
Alfred Jarry
Hunter S. Thompson
The last sentence on his suicide note.
Henrik Ibsen
This was his response to a nurse who said he was a little better.
Anton Chekhov
Dying from Tuberculosis, his doctor had given him champagne to ease the pain.
Mark Twain
Speaking to his daughter Clara.
Louisa May Alcott
Alcott did not have meningitis, though she believed it to be so. She died from mercury poison.
Jean Cocteau
Washington Irving
Speaking to his niece.
Leo Tolstoy
Hans Christian Andersen
Charles Dickens
He suffered a stroke outside his home and was asking to be laid on the ground.
H.G. Wells
He didn't know he was dying.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
W.C. Fields
“Carlotta” was Carlotta Monti, actress and his mistress.
Voltaire
When asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
Dylan Thomas
George Bernard Shaw
Henry David Thoreau
James Joyce
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