Final Message Quotes

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

You see Christians and Muslims have one thing in common which they do not share with their other religions as far as I know. They claim to be the fortunate recipient of God's final message to mankind.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

You won't hear from me again.

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

You will find my last words in the blue folder.