J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Some last words seem flat-out unbelievable.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

Speak me fair in death.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That’s what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out. Those were his last words.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

This is not the time to make enemies.

Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.

I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

Love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that - God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about - the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is "I love you". What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.