Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.
I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
Even when I'm about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.
I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.
Write as if you were dying.
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
After all is said and done, sit down.
I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.
From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
