History FamousLastWords / RealLife

* ''I am going to meet my father. At least I think I am.'' -- Creator/EnidBlyton's (author of ''[[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Noddy]]'', ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' among others) before passing away of Alzheimer's Disease at The Greenways Nursing Home, in Hampstead, North London, on 28 November 1968. Blyton was referring to her second husband Kenneth Darrell Waters who passed away a year prior on 15 September 1967.

* "Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Mary! Goodbye, Mother! Now I die happy!" Bl. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Vicu%C3%B1a Laura Vicuña]], age twelve, dying of tuberculosis complicated by [[https://www.simplycatholic.com/blessed-laura-vicuna-a-patroness-for-abuse-victims/ prolonged, extreme abuse from her stepfather]]. Her mother had basically sold herself to the man in exchange for financial aid for her kids' education. Laura had secretly vowed to give her life to save her mom's soul and her real father, back in Chile[[note]]he had sent Mom and the kids away for safety after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Civil_War_of_1891 Chilean Civil War of 1891]][[/note]]. On her deathbed, Laura begged her mother to get away from the stepfather and change her life. Her mother promised to, and did, leaving her surviving daughter with the Salesian nuns and returning to Chile. Laura's motto was ''[[StepfordSmiler Suffer silently and smile always.]]''

* "[[DefiantToTheEnd I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight.]]" -- Lionel Herrera

* "''Ich bin Heinrich Himmler!''" ("I am Heinrich Himmler!") -- Heinrich Himmler, who was trying to escape the Allies and was carrying false identity papers, finally revealing his true identity during a procedure interrogation at a British camp. They were about to give him a medical examination (as was standard with prisoners of war) when Himmler refused to open his mouth and chewed on a {{cyanide pill}} hidden in his teeth.

* "Remember, the death penalty is murder." -- Robert Drew, critiquing his penalty for murder.

* "Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Mary! Goodbye, Mother! Now I die happy!" Bl. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Vicu%C3%B1a Laura Vicuña]], age twelve, dying of tuberculosis complicated by [[https://www.simplycatholic.com/blessed-laura-vicuna-a-patroness-for-abuse-victims/ prolonged, extreme abuse from her stepfather]]. Her mother had basically sold herself to the man in exchange for financial aid for her kids' education. Laura had secretly vowed to give her life to save her mom's soul and her real father, back in Chile[[note]]he had sent Mom and the kids away for safety after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Civil_War_of_1891 Chilean Civil War of 1891]][/note]]. On her deathbed, Laura begged her mother to get away from the stepfather and change her life. Her mother promised to, and did, leaving her surviving daughter with the Salesian nuns and returning to Chile. Laura's motto was ''[[StepfordSmiler Suffer silently and smile always.]]''

* "Jesus, Mary, Mommy, Daddy." [[http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_22702_l3.htm Antonietta "Nennolina" Meo]], aged six, in 1937. Her cause for sainthood was turned in in 1972. If she's canonized, she'll be the youngest child saint who wasn't a martyr (they may designate her a Confessor due to her having declared her faith in over 100 letters to Jesus and Mary).

* "I've never forgiven that smart-alecky reporter who named me Butterfingers. To me, it's not funny." -- Thomas B. Moran

* "I love my family. [[NonSequitur Potato, potato, potato.]]" --Robert Charles Towery, before his execution in 2012 for robbing and murdering a man 21 years prior.

* "''Was ist eigentlich mit mir geschehen!?''" ("What has happened to me!?") -- Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, ''a.k.a.'' Sisi. Her assassin knocked her down as she was trying to board a ship, and nobody noticed at the time that he had stabbed her in the chest with a sharpened file, in part because Sisi's tight corset kept the blood down. She fainted shortly after boarding the ship and promptly died of internal bleeding.

* "[[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} I swear that there is no god but God,]] [[KilledMidSentence and Muhammad--]]" -- UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein. They didn't even let him finish the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada Shahada]]. Alternatively: "Down with the traitors, the Americans, the spies, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the Persians]]!"

* "George How Jig, did you get my-" -- Captain Alan Gibson, pilot of the [=DeHavilland=] Comet of BOAC Flight 781. Gibson was conversing with another airliner in the area with the registration ''G-ALHJ'' (Pronounced by Gibson above as George How-Jig) when his transmission was abruptly cut off. Witnesses on the ground first reported seeing the flaming wreckage of the Comet falling only moments after this; investigation had revealed that a previously unknown structural weakness stemming from [[ForWantOfANail the shape of the windows]] had caused the plane to break up in flight. As it was, the sudden decompression would have immediately knocked Gibson and the rest of the plane's occupants out cold, sparing them the terror of falling from the sky.

* "Reading red on the A power bus. I switched to B. At 3457 meters sounds more aft." -- Stockton Rush, on board the Titan submersible. This is the last broadcast from him before it imploded.

* "I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -- Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of the law of gravity