Beautiful epitaphs, poems on the monument. Death words of famous people

Here you will find examples of text for a mourning speech at a funeral. These parting words written to the deceased in prose (not in verse), universal (suitable for a colleague, friend, mother, father, grandmother, other relatives) and suitable for public speaking or in a narrow circle. All names are used solely for convenience of presentation. If you decide to use any of the examples, don't forget to change the name to whatever you want.

Words can be expressed separately, or you can include them in one of the speeches selected below (usually the words of sorrow are pronounced at the very beginning).

Option number 1

A great sorrow has befallen us and brought us to this mourning hall today. With a feeling of deep sorrow and irreparable loss, we see off last way a person dear to us (insert name here).

Childhood and youth (name) passed in the village (name locality) and even then the most bright features her personality: discipline, an extraordinary mind, perseverance in study and work, focus on results, straightforwardness and worldly acumen. Maria Ivanovna has always won the sympathy of people with her ability to negotiate, understand people and establish long-term, strong relationship based on mutual trust and good will. Therefore, she always had many friends, business contacts and a strong, friendly family. In addition, it was distinguished by a high internal culture, outstanding moral qualities and personal charm.

We all knew (name) as an outstanding, intelligent and energetic person. She did a lot for us, she always helped in any way she could, and her personality has always been significant and significant for us, as well as her decisions, opinion, support.

We are glad that you were in our life, because you brought a lot of light, warmth and kindness into it. We remember you, we love you, we miss you.

Option number 2

He (if necessary, give the name of the deceased) was amazing person with difficult and interesting fate. Ivan Ivanovich always said that a person has three things that make him a person, these are work, friends and family. And today we all gathered to say goodbye to you - a person who considered us the main components of his being.

AT recent times you often said that you look into the future less and more and more and more often turn to the past ... And you notice that over time, children and family become more and more important to you, and your role in their life becomes, on the contrary, less and less noticeable. I disagree with your last statement. We miss you. We miss you. And your role in our destiny has always remained the most significant. Without you, the whole world has become different and how to live with it is still unclear.

We measured our lives, our victories and mistakes - by you. The world you were in seemed very solid to us. I promise that we, your children, grandchildren will not leave each other, we will support each other the way you always did.

You showed, taught us how to be a strong family and we learned, we will try to cope. But we, dad, will not forget you, and we are unlikely to be able to let go so quickly. Even now you will have to work for us as a guide to life path. Thank you.

Option number 3

Friends, relatives and everyone present! Today we say goodbye forever to a person dear to us and I would like to say a few words in memory of him.

Our family suffered a huge loss, having lost its important component - you, mother. She was surprisingly modest, surprisingly tactful, wise and talented. The real keeper of the family hearth. It was thanks to her and her many years of tireless work, support, attention and firm management that our house was a real fortress and a haven from worldly storms. And all family members were always kind, warm, well-fed, dressed, educated and cheerful. Mom always knew how to console and when not to impose advice and moralizing. She knew how to find an approach to anyone, although it was not easy. She painstakingly, day after day, created our cozy, comfortable world, in which everyone is significant and not forgotten. She gave us light, warmth and kindness every day. And we can never forget it.

Now mommy, rest from your labors, sleep. You stayed with us for such a short time, and left love and warmth for several lives ahead. And you will forever remain in my heart. You will forever be a model of a real mother, and your lessons (your example) will never be forgotten. We will try to create in our families the same warmth, love and joy that you aspired to.

Option number 4

Hello, my name is Petrov Petr Petrovich, for many years I worked with the deceased, I was his colleague and friend, one of the closest people in his circle, not counting relatives.

Today is a mournful day and we see off Sidor Sidorovich on his last journey. In such sad moments, the qualities of the personality of the departed person are always more noticeable and more acutely felt what and who he was, the significance of what he did. Looking back, his intellect, experience, intelligence and impeccable professionalism become especially clearly visible. Of course, he was one of the brightest and most valuable members of our team (teams, organizations, etc.).

Sidor Sidorovich was able to calmly, constructively and effectively (and this is the most important thing) solve the most challenging tasks achieved maximum results. And did it all the way through career path. And this path was not easy and not fast. He started it from the very beginning and got almost to the end, having undergone many professional transformations along the way. For me, he has always been and will remain an example of a true professional, as he should be - enthusiastic, persistent, persistent in achieving goals, constantly learning and developing, growing above himself. I and many other colleagues of mine have always learned from him, now we will miss him very much. He did a lot for the development of our organization, for strengthening its position in the industry. His responsibility and sensitive, sincere concern for people forever left a mark in our hearts. Such was Sidor Sidorovich - a noble, decent man.

We will remember you Sidor Sidorovich, respect, love and thank you. You are forever in our hearts. Farewell.

Option number 5

Dad always insisted on getting us all together as often as possible, seeing us all together and that in life we ​​always stick to each other. So today he, as usual, gathered us all together. But this time is the last time he is with us.

Dad was an amazing person - a real fighter and taught us this. Probably, childhood, in which, often, there were no basic essentials, left an imprint on the qualities of his personality. He pulled the family out of dire need, always achieved his goal. He was inventive and optimistic and taught me in difficult circumstances to turn to this quality within myself for support. Optimism now helps me out in difficult days. For this I will always be grateful to him.

He was great, caring, empathetic and loving husband and father. He never denied me care and assistance. He built a house, grew a beautiful garden, gave me an education and a roof over my head. He has always been the true master and support of the family. It was always calm and reliable with him. What more could you want from your own father? There is nothing that he could give, but did not give to me and my mother.

Today I not only lost a parent and guardian angel, but also - best friend. Because dad, when my childhood ended, technically moved from the status of a father to the status of a friend. Together we implemented common ideas and he listened to my opinion, often asked for advice. It means a lot to me and gives me strength and faith in myself. Now I won’t be able to talk with him, discuss and make plans ... But I promise, dad, that I will finish everything you started and do everything the way you wanted, planned and dreamed.

I will always remember you, visit and love you, father. You will forever remain for me a model of a man and a person. I don't want to say goodbye to you. I'll say goodbye. You will always be present in my life in one form or another, in my heart and in my thoughts, even though I will never be able to talk to you.

Option number 6

My grandmother was always distinguished by amazing organization and strong-willed qualities. At a young age, she was left alone with three children, without any help and support. And she was able to raise and teach them decent people. None of them became an alcoholic, a drug addict, a criminal. All children have worked and are working, have given birth to their children and are raising them in love and care. And how she knew how, in extremely cramped circumstances, to organize worthy living conditions for herself and her children ... I have never met such an exemplary and efficient management anywhere else. This is her talent. What it cost her, no one knows.

Grandmother never complained to anyone, it was simply impossible to make her waste time whining, idle chatter or idle time. As long as I saw and remember her, she was always busy with something, constantly solving everyday problems - her own and her children's. She worked until her last day and tried her best to support her adult children. She never spared attention, care and affection for loved ones.

The main quality of a grandmother is a subtle, sharp mind. Irony and a wonderful sense of humour. She taught us to always drink from this source in difficulties. And I still use her lesson to this day. He has repeatedly rescued me from seemingly hopeless situations. life situations. I can’t express in words how much warmth she gave me ... and now she didn’t take it with her, leaving me for the rest of my life ahead.

Thank you, dear, for being with me, for keeping so many of my secrets ... thank you for your care and kindness, for the light that illuminated my childhood and subsequent years. You are forever in my heart, I love you now and will always love you. And I promise, I will fulfill everything that we agreed with you.

Option number 7

Dear friends, relatives, colleagues. Today, in this mourning hall, we have been brought together by a great loss. We say goodbye to Kharitonov Khariton Kharitonovich. I'll introduce myself for those who don't know me. My name is Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich and I had friendly relations with Khariton Kharitonovich.

We knew each other for 15 years, and Khariton was - special person. He knew how to make friends like no one else and was a true friend. The kind that can now only be found on the pages of books and in beautiful films about friendship. It was always interesting to be with him, and being near him, it was impossible not to make new discoveries for yourself. He was constantly in motion and set in motion everyone who fell into his orbit. He opened up to me personally. He found some new talents and qualities, was able to support in Hard time to rejoice together happy moments and never pulled the blanket over himself. Didn't envy. Was not indifferent. Didn't do mean things. He did not know how to play up, toady, to flatter.

I have never met such people and I don't know if I will ever meet again. I will miss you very much, my friend. Already not enough. Thank you for being there and for bringing so much good into my life. I will remember you, love, honor your memory and support your loved ones. Don't worry, I won't leave them. I think you would like it. Goodbye.

• Reading poetry at parting with the deceased is not considered appropriate and should not be abused. However, it is appropriate to say goodbye in the form of poetry if the deceased loved them very much or wrote them himself and they (poems) were an integral, significant part of his life.
• If an outsider speaks on behalf of the family (colleagues, relatives, etc.), then first you need to introduce yourself (to those who do not know) and briefly indicate in what relationship the speaker was with the deceased or who he was related to.
• In a farewell speech, it is appropriate to include any interesting case which characterizes the deceased. Remembrances of joyful events are also acceptable, funny cases, but without farce, sarcasm, without turning the ceremony into a farce.
• At the end, it is necessary to say personal words to the forever departed person. It can be just words of farewell or warm words of love and reverence. It is also customary to make some promises or remind you of some agreements that you undertake to fulfill (perhaps the deceased left a covenant or request, insisted on their fulfillment by family members, friends, colleagues). Generally, last words should be as if you were talking to a living person whom you are seeing off forever and want to leave him and yourself warm, bright feelings and maintain friendly relations.
• Clarification of relations, recalling shortcomings and disputes, dividing up anything, in a mourning speech, are unacceptable.
• If you have prepared not a couple short sentences, but - a full-fledged speech, then it is permissible to read it from a sheet of paper so as not to get lost and not waste time on a painful selection of words (and the circumstances are such that words often leave the head and do not want to return to it).
• When listing personal qualities, even the negative aspects of character can be called correct formulations, without petty details. To do this, just look at them from a different angle and identify " reverse side medals." For example: importunity, obsession and persistence can be called - perseverance, the ability to achieve goals, perseverance and determination. And the demands of the impossible can be represented as an orientation towards lofty goals dreaminess and ambition.

Collection of the last words of the dying from a member of the resuscitation team

“If you put your hand on the pulse, you will feel the countdown, which turned on at the moment of your birth. You will surely die. All your life, if you're not dumb, you're talking - commenting on yourself. You say words, words about words... Someday, what you say will be your last word, your last comment. Below are the last words of others that I listened to during my five years in the hospital. At first I began to write them down in a notebook so as not to forget. Then I realized that I remember forever and stopped writing. At first, when I stopped working in the hospital, I regretted that such things are now extremely rare to hear. Only then I realized that the last words can be heard from living people. It’s enough just to listen more closely and understand that most of them will also not say anything else.”

“Wash the currant, son, it’s just from the garden ...” A. 79 years old (This was the first entry in my notebook, the first thing I heard when I was still a nurse. I went to wash the currant, and when I returned, my grandmother already died of a heart attack with the same expression I left her with.)

“But he is still more intelligent than you...” V. 47 years old (An elderly, very rich Ayzerbajan woman who threw a tantrum that she wants to see her son. They were given ten minutes to talk, and when I came to escort him out of the department, then he heard how this was the last thing she said to him. After he left, she looked quite angrily at everyone, did not talk to anyone, and an hour later she died as a result of cardiac arrest.)

“Did you ... eat, ... eat? What did you, ..eat, ...eat? Did you ... eat, ... eat? E. 47 years old (Probably also a locksmith. Or a carpenter. In short, some drunkard with a rare disease for science. His heart stopped when he, standing naked on the marble floor, urinated on the floor. He fell, we began to shift him on the bed, on weight trying to massage the heart. At this time, gasping for breath, he asked us his "last questions".)

“Potassium ...” Y. 34 years old (Potassium was the cause of his death. The nurse did not set the speed of the dropper and the lightning-fast administration of potassium caused a cardiac arrest. Apparently, he felt it, because when I ran into the hall at the signal of the devices, he raised forefinger and pointing to an empty jar, he told me about what was in it. This, by the way, was the only case of a potassium overdose out of several dozen in my practice, as a result of which death occurred.)

“How aware are you of what you are doing. Write to me on a piece of paper how much you are aware of what you are doing now ... "J., 53 years old (J. was a hydraulic engineer. He suffered from hypochondriacal delirium, asking everyone and everything about the mechanism of action of each pill and" why it itches here, but it pricks here". He asked the doctors to sign in his notebook for each injection. To be honest, he died because of the nurse's sloppiness, either she mixed up the cardiotonic, or his dose ... I don’t remember. I only remember what he said at the end.)

“It hurts a lot here!” Z. 24 years old (This young man one of the "youngest" heart attacks in Moscow was registered. He constantly asked only “wee-and-be ...” and spoke, putting his hand on the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe heart, that he was very hurt. His mother said that he had a very severe stress. Three days later, the "youngest" death from myocardial infarction was registered. He died repeating those words...)

"I want to go home". I. 8 years old (A girl who spoke only these two words for two weeks after the operation on the liver. She died on my duty.)

“Larisa, Lara, Larisa...” M., 45 years old (M. had a repeated extensive myocardial infarction. wedding ring fingers of the other hand and repeating the name of his wife. When he died, I took off this ring to give to her.)

“Everything?.. Yes?.. Everything?.. Everything?.. Yes?.. Everything?.. Yes?..” T., 56 years old At that moment, ventricular fibrillation began and he fell to the floor. We, the whole shift, put him on the bed. Cardiac arrest began, someone began to "pump" ... He, which is difficult to explain, remained conscious. For each pressing of the chest, on exhaling, he squeezed out one of these questions. Nobody answered him. This went on for about ten seconds.)

“When I flew I saw white lights, however, drink this one yourself when your daughter comes.” U. 57 years old (In fact, it was a military pilot Belousov. Charming, handsome and very strong-willed uncle. With complications, he lay on a ventilator for four months until he died of sepsis. These are not words - because of the tracheostomy, he could not speak - this is his last note, which he wrote in huge letters, reminiscent of the scribbles of a preschooler. He tried to explain to me three times about the white lights, but, unfortunately, I did not understand anything. “Drink it yourself,” - about the “miraculous” cadaveric medicine of the mummy, with which he was conscientiously soldered at the insistence sibling, also, by the way, a military pilot. I was on duty with Belousov for a month and a half, fifteen shifts in a row. I really liked him, I really wanted him to recover. He died at night and I was incredibly upset. In the morning, leaving work, I ran into his daughter at the door of the department. She knew me and asked with a smile: “How is he there? I, here, brought him baby puree, mineral water, honey ... ”I frowned, deliberately rudely muttered something about being tired after a sleepless night, and quickly ran into the elevator. They say she sat at the entrance for two hours, no one dared to tell her ...)

"Come to me! I will share with you the buzz! F. 19 years old (I didn’t hear this. A friend of mine, whom I met when he worked as a salesman in music store. These words belong to his girlfriend, who died a few minutes later from a heroin overdose. At his house, in his bed. Later, I asked him if he remembered her last words. “Of course, I will never forget them!” I answered it and shared with me.)

Last words famous people

"It's Done" - Jesus

AT early XIX century granddaughter of the famous Japanese warrior Shingen, one of the most beautiful girls Japan, a subtle poetess, a favorite of the Empress, wanted to learn Zen. Several famous masters rejected her because of her beauty. Master Hakou said, "Your beauty will be the source of all problems." Then she burned her face with a red-hot iron and became Hakou's apprentice. She took the name Rionen, which means "clearly understand". Just before her death, she wrote a short poem: Sixty-six times these eyes could admire autumn. Ask nothing. Listen to the hum of the pines in complete calm.

Winston Churchill was very tired of life towards the end, and his last words were: "How I'm tired of all this."

Oscar Wilde died in a room with tasteless wallpaper. The approaching death did not change his attitude towards life. After the words: “Killer coloring! One of us will have to leave here,” he left.

Alexandre Dumas: “So I won’t know how it will end.”

Anton Chekhov died in the German resort town of Badenweiler. A German doctor treated him to champagne (according to the old German medical tradition, a doctor who has diagnosed his colleague with a fatal diagnosis treats a dying man to champagne). Chekhov said "Ich sterbe", drank his glass to the bottom, and said: "I haven't drunk champagne for a long time."

Mikhail Zoshchenko: Leave me alone.

“Well, why are you crying? Did you think I was immortal? - "Sun King" Louis XIV

Balzac before his death remembered one of his literary heroes, an experienced Bianchon doctor and said: "He would have saved me."

Leonardo da Vinci: “I insulted God and people! My works have not reached the height to which I aspired!

Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her and said, "I'm ready, boys."

One of the cinematographer brothers, 92-year-old Auguste Lumiere: "My film is running out."

American businessman Abrahim Hewitt tore off the mask of the oxygen machine and said: “Leave it! I'm already dead..."

The famous English surgeon Joseph Green, as a medical habit, measured his pulse. "The pulse is gone," he said.

The famous English director Noel Howard, feeling that he was dying, said: “ Goodnight, my dear. See you tomorrow".

Below are the last words ordinary people not burdened with genius and fame =)

the words of a chemistry student: “Professor, believe me, this is a really interesting reaction ...”

parachutist's words: "I wonder who stole mine?"

the words of the airbus crew: "Look, the light is flashing ... Okay, figs with her."

the painter's words: "Of course, the scaffolding will hold up!"

the words of the astronaut: “No, everything is in order. I have enough air for another thirty minutes.

the words of a recruit with a grenade: “How far do you say I should count?”

truck driver's words: "Those old bridges will last forever!"

the words of the factory canteen cook: "Something is suspiciously quiet in the dining room."

the words of the race car driver: “I wonder if the mechanic got wind that I slept with his wife?”

the words of the Christmas goose: "Oh, holy birth ..."

the doorkeeper's words: "Only over my corpse."

the words of the whaler: "So, now we have him on the hook!"

the night watchman's words: "Who's there?"

the words of the computer: “Are you sure? »

photojournalist's words: "It will be a sensational shot!"

diver's words: "Don't moray eels bite?"

the words of a drinking buddy: "Oh ... crashed ..."

skier's words: “What other avalanche? She left last week."

the words of a physical education teacher: “All spears and cores - to me!”

diner owner's words: "Did you like it?"

the words of the hero: “What help!? Yes, there are only three of them ... "

the words of the driver "Oka": "Well, here I'll slip in no time, garbage!"

the words of a motorist: "Tomorrow I'll drive up to check the brakes ..."

the words of the executioner: “The noose is tight? No problem, I'll check right now ... "

the words of two lion tamers: “How? I thought YOU fed them!?!”

the words of the son of the president: “Dad, what is this red button for?”

the words of the policeman: “Six shots. He's used up all his ammo..."

the words of the cyclist: “So, here the Volga is inferior to us ...”

the words of the captain of the submarine: "It is urgent to ventilate here!"

the words of a pedestrian: "Come on, we're green!"

the words of the bailiff: "... the gun will also be confiscated!"

the words of a railway worker: “Do not be afraid, this train will pass along the neighboring track!”

the words of the cheetah hunter: "Hmm, and he is approaching quite quickly ..."

the words of the driver's wife: "Drive out, it's free on the right!"

the words of the excavator driver: “What kind of cylinder did we scrape? Let's see..."

the words of the mountaineering instructor: “Yes, my! For the fifth time I show: truly reliable knots are tied like this ... "

the words of a car mechanic: "Lower the platform a little ..."

the words of a fugitive convict: “Now we have fixed the rope well.”

the words of an electrician: "They should already turn off ..."

words of a biologist: “This snake is known to us. Its venom is not dangerous to humans.

sapper's words: “That's it. Exactly red. Cut red!

the words of the driver: "If this pig does not switch to the near one, I will not switch too!"

the words of the pizza delivery man: "You have a wonderful dog ..."

bungee jumper's words: "Beauty-ah-ah-ah ........!!!"

the words of a chemist: “And if we heat it up a little ...?”

roofer's words: "Not a breeze today..."

the words of the detective: "The case is simple: the killer is you!"

words of a diabetic: "Was that sugar?"

wife's words: "The husband will return only in the morning .."

husband's words: "Well .. dear ... you're not jealous of me ..."

the words of the night thief: “Let's go through here. Their Doberman's chain doesn't reach here."

the words of the inventor: "So, let's start testing ..."

the words of the auto-instructor: “Okay, now try it yourself ...”

the words of an examiner in a driving school: “Park here on the embankment!”

the words of the platoon commander: “Yes, there is not a single living soul within a radius of 10 kilometers ....”

the words of the butcher: “Lech, throw me that knife!”

the words of the crew commander: "In a few minutes we will land in accordance with the schedule."

the words of the rest of the experts: “Don’t interfere, I know what I’m doing!”

The last word of the shot Beria was a short one: "Cattle!"

"Burn - does not mean to refute!" Giordano Bruno's dying words.

"Stalin will come!" - dying words of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

The dying words attributed to Pavlov: “Academician Pavlov is busy. He is dying".

Peter the Great did not make a will about the heir. Dying, he ordered paper and pen to be given, but he could only write: “Give everything ...” - which gave rise to a long turmoil and a struggle for power.

Lenin died, being clouded in mind. He asked the table and chairs for forgiveness for his sins.

Count Leo Tolstoy said before his death: “I would like to hear the gypsies - and nothing more is needed!”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov before going to better world, asked for champagne, tasted it and said with a happy look: "It's been a long time since I drank champagne." Then he lay down on the sofa and said in German: "Ich sterbe" - "I am dying." He died as a true doctor, stating the fact of the death of his patient, who in this case was himself.

Pushkin's last words were spoken in French: "I must put my house in order" - "Il faut que je derange ma maison".

The great Russian thinker Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov. Completely different situation. 1919 Russia is engulfed in the nightmare of revolution and civil war. The starving writer and philosopher, who created books that will be studied by posterity, is unable to think about the eternal and great before death and mutters only one thing: “Bread with butter! Sour cream!

Nicholas I, the mighty tsar, whom ungrateful descendants will remember only as "Nikolai Palkin," died with extraordinary dignity. Knowing that his days were numbered, having partake of the Holy Mysteries, he valiantly endured severe pain, and when they brought his son Alexander to him, he finally said: “Learn to die. Keep them all in your fist! He could not know that the death of his son would be terrible - Alexander II, blown up by a terrorist, would be brought to Winter Palace with severed legs, bleeding and unconscious.

The famous English surgeon Joseph Green, dying, measured his pulse out of medical habit. “The pulse is gone,” he managed to say before his death.

Beethoven's last words on March 26, 1827 were: "Applause friends, the comedy is over."

Winston Churchill, towards his end, was very tired of life and went into another world with the following phrase: “How tired I am of all this!”

Alexandre Dumas: “So I won’t know how it will end.”

Alexander Blok: "Russia ate me like a stupid pig of its pig."

Saltykov-Shchedrin: "Is that you, fool?"

Queen Marie Antoinette, climbing the scaffold, stumbled and stepped on the executioner's foot: "Forgive me, please, monsieur, I did it by accident."

Balzac, before his death, remembered one of his literary heroes, the skilled physician Bianchon, and said: "He would have saved me."

Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her with the words: "I'm ready, boys."

Yagoda, People's Commissar of the NKVD, said before his death: “There must be God. He punishes me for my sins."

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An epitaph is an inscription on a monument mournful words about a departed person, often in poetic form. Below are several options for epitaphs and poems for engraving on a monument and tombstone.

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Epitaphs on the monument are short / father, mother, daughter and son

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1. Oscar Wilde, the great esthete and master of paradoxes, was dying in a room with tasteless wallpaper. Even in the face of death, his refined taste and sense of humor did not change him. After the words: “Killer coloring! One of us will have to leave here,” he went to another world.

2. Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin greeted death with the question: “Are you a fool?”

3. Eugene O'Neill lamented before his death: “I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel and fucking dying in a hotel."

4. William Somerset Maugham took care of those who remained: “Dying is a boring and bleak business. My advice to you is never do this.”

5. The last words of William Saroyan are not devoid of grace and self-irony: “Everyone is destined to die, but I always thought that they would make an exception for me. So what?"

6. Dying, Honore de Balzac remembered one of the characters in his stories, an experienced doctor Bianchon. “He would have saved me,” the great writer sighed.

7. Johann Wolfgang Goethe said right before his death: “More light!” Before that, he asked the doctor how much he had left to live. When the doctor admitted that it was no more than an hour, Goethe breathed a sigh of relief with the words: “Thank God, only an hour!”

8. Dying in the town of Bougival near Paris, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev uttered mysterious words: "Farewell, my dear, my whitish ...".

9. "So what's the answer?" asked Gertrude Stein as they wheeled her into the operating room. The writer was dying of cancer, from which her mother had previously died. Without waiting for an answer, she asked again: “What then is the question?” The writer did not wake up from anesthesia.

10. How the true zealot of the tongue died French writer, poet and playwright Felix Arver. Hearing the nurse say to someone: “This is at the end of the corridor,” he groaned with his last strength: “Not a corridor, but a corridor!” - and died.

Last words of famous people

Probably, many people wonder what they will think about in the last moments of their lives. In the face of death, everyone thinks and talks about his own - someone says goodbye to relatives and friends, others try to do what they love to the very end, and still others do not find anything better than to utter some kind of barb against those present.

Your attention - dying statements of individuals who, one way or another, left their mark on history.

Raphael Santi, artist

"Happy".

Gustav Mahler, composer

Gustav Mahler died in his bed. AT last minutes life it seemed to him that he was conducting an orchestra and his final word was: "Mozart!".

Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer

The dying composer did not like the fact that the priest sang psalms at his deathbed and he declared: “Why the hell do I need all these songs, holy father? You are fake!"

Frank Sinatra, singer

"I'm losing him."

George Orwell, writer

"At fifty, every man has the face he deserves." Orwell died at the age of 46.

Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, writer

In the last moments of his life, Sartre, referring to his beloved, Simone de Beauvoir, said: "I love you so much, my dear Beaver."

Nostradamus, doctor, alchemist, astrologer

The thinker's pre-death words, like many of his statements, turned out to be prophetic: "Tomorrow at dawn I will be gone." The prediction came true.

Vladimir Nabokov, writer

Except literary activity, Nabokov was interested in entomology, in particular - the study of butterflies. His last words were: "Some butterfly has already taken off."

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Stepping on the foot of the executioner, who was leading her to the scaffold, the queen said with dignity: “Please excuse me, monsieur. I did not mean to".

Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician

“I don’t know how the world perceived me. To myself, I always seemed like a boy who played on the seashore and entertained himself by searching for beautiful pebbles and shells, while the great ocean of truth lay before me unknown.

Leonardo da Vinci, thinker, scientist, artist

“I offended God and people, because in my work I did not reach the height that I aspired to.”

Benjamin Franklin, politician, diplomat, scientist, journalist

When the daughter asked 84-year-old seriously ill Franklin to lie down differently so that he could breathe easier, the old man, anticipating the imminent end, grumpily said: “Nothing comes easily to a dying man.”

Charles "Lucky" Luciano, gangster

Luciano died while filming a documentary about the Sicilian mafia. His dying phrase was: "One way or another, I want to get into the movies." The last wish of the mafiosi came true - based on the life of Luciano, several feature films and documentaries, he was one of the few gangsters who died a natural death.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer

The creator of Sherlock Holmes died in his garden from heart attack, at the age of 71. His last words were addressed to his beloved wife: “You are wonderful,” the writer said and died.

Ernest Hemingway, writer

On July 2, 1961, Hemingway said to his wife: "Good night, kitten." Then he went to his room, and a few minutes later his wife heard a loud jerky sound - the writer committed suicide with a shot in the head.

Alfred Hitchcock, film director, master of suspense

“No one knows what the ending will be. To know exactly what will happen after death, one must die, although Catholics have some hopes in this regard.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, revolutionary, one of the founders of the USSR

Before his death, Vladimir Ilyich, turning to his beloved dog, who brought him a dead bird, said: "Here is a dog."

Sir Winston Churchill, politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain

"How I'm tired of all this."

Joan Crawford, actress

With one foot in the grave, Joan turned to the housekeeper, who was reciting a prayer: “Damn it! Don't you dare ask God to help me!"

Bo Diddley, singer, founder of rock and roll

The famous musician died while listening to the song "Walk Around Heaven", authored by American singer Patti LaBelle. According to eyewitnesses, before his death, Diddley said: "Wow!".

Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur, Founder of Apple Corporation

"Wow. Wow. Wow!".