H. L. Mencken Quotes

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

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

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

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say.

Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

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.

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

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

I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.

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

Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)