Quotes on Last Words

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)

I am not the least afraid to die

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

I am just going outside and I may be some time

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Now it is nothing but torture.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

Let me go to the house of the Father.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.