Florence King Quotes

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

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

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.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

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

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

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.

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

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.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.