Last Words Said by 25 Most Famous Authors in History

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Even on their death bed, the world’s most prestigious authors were composing literature. Below, we present a list of the last words said by some of the most famous authors in history. Capturing the essence of wisdom and beauty, their last words formed an ethereal end encompassing from psychedelic nonsense to acceptance.

“I must go in, for the fog is rising.” – Emily Dickinson

“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.” – Oscar Wilde

“It is most beautiful.” – Elizabeth Barett Browning

“Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.” – Lord Byron

 “It’s all been very interesting.” – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“I see black light.” – Victor Hugo

“Lord help my poor soul.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Moose… Indian…” – Henry David Thoreau

“Is it not meningitis?” – Louisa M. Alcott

“LSD, 100 micrograms I.M.” – Aldous Huxley

“I can’t sleep.” – J.M. Barrie

“I want nothing but death.” – Jane Austen

“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room.” – Eugene O’Neill

“Now, now, my good man this is no time for making enemies.”  – Voltaire

“Take away those pillows. I shall need them no more.” – Lewis Carroll

“More light.“ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Relax it won’t hurt.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“Turn up the lights I don’t want to go home in the dark.”  – O. Henry

“Kill me or you are a murderer." – Franz Kafka

"It’s been a long time since I drank champagne."  – Anton Chekhov 

"I love many things, I love all people…"  – Leo Tolstoy 

"Does nobody understand?"  – James Joyce

"Goddam the whole f*#cking world and everyone in it –  except you, Carlotta." – W.C. Fields 

"Well I must arrange the pillows for another weary night! When will this end?” -Washington Irving

“Oh I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us. We have been so happy." – Charlotte Brontë