Final Statement Quotes

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

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

I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

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 wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

It is very beautiful over there. (last words)

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's it!' I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they've written a story, nobody will ever try it again.

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

And one more thing.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

I believe in picking a strong ending.

Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.