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Dying words

Whose final words were the following ones?
In some cases, the quotes may be apocryphal.
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Last updated: November 25, 2020
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1. "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"
Buddha
Muhammad
Zoroaster
Jesus
According to Luke 23:46: "Jesus cried with a loud voice and said, 'Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.' Saying this, he breathed his last." The gospel of John has "It is finished" as the last words of Jesus.
2. "You too, my child?"
Eric the Red
Julius Caesar
George H. W. Bush
Bruce Lee
Historian Suetonius reports that bystanders claimed those words, uttered in Greek (“Kai su, teknon?”), were Caesar's final ones. He doesn't give credit to the story, though. The popular "Et tu Brute?" was made up by Shakespeare.
3. "I'm bored with it all."
Winston Churchill
Stalin
Charles de Gaulle
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Churchill didn’t recover from his eighth stroke, in 1965. He spent most of his last days in coma, and said his last words to his son-in-law.
4. "Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here."
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
Nostradamus
Joseph Smith
Michel de Nostredame's secretary claimed that he made this final prophecy on the evening of 1 July 1566. Nostradamus' gout had been worsening in the past weeks.
5. "Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit."
Frank Sinatra
Sophocles
Augustus
Lawrence Olivier
Acording to Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, Augustus last words referred to the play-acting and regal authority that he had put on as emperor.
6. "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
Antoni Gaudí
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Vincent Van Gogh
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo's right hand was paralyzed in the final years of his life, which caused him to leave several of his works unfinished.
7. "To the strongest."
Frederick the Great
Catherine the Great
Alexander the Great
Charlemagne
When asked in his deathbed to whom he bequeathed his kingdom, he just replied "to the strongest", which initiated a series of civil wars amongst his commanders.
8. "Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?"
Confucius
Thomas Jefferson
Qin Shi Huang
Louis XIV
The most powerful king of his generation, Louis died of gangrene at Versailles after a long agony..
9. "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Andy Warhol
Oscar Wilde
Charlie Chaplin
Maria Callas
Meningitis had forced Wilde to spend his last weeks bedridden on a cheap hotel's room in France.
10. "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."
Salvador Allende
Grigori Rasputin
Che Guevara
Mahatma Gandhi
Said by Che to his executioner, when he saw him entering the hut in which he was being held prisoner.
11. "My God, what's happened?"
George A. Custer
Diana Spencer
Thomas Beckett
James Dean
Diana was asking it to fireman Xavier Gourmelon, who led the response team at the crash site.
12. "The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
Tycho Brahe
Mao Zedong
Frédéric Chopin
Ernest Hemingway
According to his wishes, Chopin's sister ensured that his heart was cut out before burial.
13. "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
Groucho Marx
Voltaire
Tennessee Williams
Pancho Villa
Villa was surprised by seven riflemen that ambushed him on his drive home.
14. "This is no way to live!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Groucho Marx
John D. Rockefeller
Stephen Hawking
His gravestone bears no epitaph, but in one of his last interviews he suggested one: "Excuse me, I can't stand up."
15. "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
Karl Marx
Harpo Marx
Groucho Marx
Chico Marx
This was Marx's reply to a servant who had asked him if he had any last words.
7 Comments
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Level 36
Nov 25, 2020
i'm not sure
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Level 78
Nov 26, 2020
About?
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Level 39
Jun 20, 2021
About a little guy, that lives in a blue world.
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Level 62
Jun 13, 2021
This was great fun! But I can't believe I didn't spot Augustus! I know I saw that sentence on his Wikipedia page or somewhere. His last public words were something like "I found Rome of clay and I leave it to you of marble", and remembering that threw me off.
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Level 71
Jun 20, 2021
Nice quiz! Tough one. Most of these were a stab in the dark for me.
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Level 68
Jun 21, 2021
Well, I got two.
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Level 74
Sep 26, 2023
You know the answer choices make the quiz challenging when 5/15 answers are correctly guessed less than 25% of the time! I really enjoyed this and I liked the explanation below each question!