Dying words. Last words of famous people
Death is an inevitable thing, and at some point the hour of death comes to everyone. And many greet him quite calmly and with dignity. I recommend:
Empress Elizaveta Petrovna extremely surprised the doctors when, half a minute before her death, she stood up on her pillows and, as always, threateningly, asked: “Am I still alive?!” But before the doctors had time to get scared, everything corrected itself.
Count Tolstoy said the last thing on his deathbed: “I would like to hear the gypsies - and I don’t need anything else!”
Composer Edvard Grieg: “Well, if this is inevitable...”
Pavlov: “Academician Pavlov is busy. He's dying
The famous naturalist Lacepede gave the order to his son: “Charles, write the word END in large letters at the end of my manuscript.”
Physicist Gay-Lussac: “It’s a pity to leave at such an interesting moment.”
The legendary Kaspar Bekes, who lived his entire life as a militant atheist, on his deathbed yielded to the entreaties of the devout Batory and agreed to accept the priest. The priest tries to console Bekesh with the fact that the latter is now leaving the vale of sorrows and will soon see a better world. He listened and listened, then stood up on his bed and, as clearly as he could, said clearly: “Get out. Life is wonderful.” Which is what he died with.
Louis XV's daughter Louise: “Gallop to heaven! Gallop into the sky!”
Writer Gertrude Stein: “What is the question? What's the question? If there is no question, then there is no answer.”
Victor Hugo: “I see a black light...”
Eugene O'Neill, writer: “I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel and... damn it... dying in a hotel.”
The only thing Henry VIII managed to say before his death was: “Monks... monks... monks.” On the last day of his life he was tormented by hallucinations. But Henry’s heirs, just in case, persecuted all available monasteries, suspecting that the king was poisoned by one of the priests.
George Byron: “Well, I'm off to bed.”
Louis XIV shouted at his household: “Why are you crying? Did you think I was immortal?”
The father of dialectics, Friedrich Hegel: “Only one person understood me throughout my entire life... But in essence... and he did not understand me!”
Vaslav Nijinsky, Anatole France, Garibaldi whispered the same word before their death: “Mama!”
“Wait a minute.” Pope Alexander VI said this. Everyone did just that, but, alas, nothing worked, dad still died.
Euripides, who, according to rumors, was simply terrified of his imminent death, when asked what he could be afraid of in the death of such great philosopher, replied: “That I don’t know anything.”
Dying, Balzac recalled one of the characters in his stories, the experienced doctor Bianchon: “He would have saved me...”.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: “Hope!.. Hope! Hope!.. Damned!”
Before his execution, Mikhail Romanov gave his boots to the executioners: “Use them, guys, they are royal after all.”
Spy-dancer Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her: “I’m ready, boys.”
The philosopher Immanuel Kant said just one word before his death: “Enough.”
One of the filmmaker brothers, 92-year-old O. Lumiere: “My film is running out.”
Ibsen, after lying in silent paralysis for several years, stood up and said: “On the contrary!” - and died.
Nadezhda Mandelstam to her nurse: “Don’t be afraid.” Somerset Maugham: “Dying is a boring thing. Never do this!”
Heinrich Heine: “God forgive me! This is his job."
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev on his deathbed uttered a strange thing: “Farewell, my dears, my whitish ones...”.
The poet Felix Arver, hearing a nurse say to someone: “It’s at the end of the KoLidora,” groaned with all his might: “Not the KoLidora, but the KoRidora” and died.
Artist Antoine Watteau: “Take this cross away from me! How could Christ be portrayed so poorly!”
Oscar Wilde, who died in hotel room, looked at the tasteless wallpaper on the walls with a fading gaze and sighed: “They are killing me. One of us will have to leave.” He left. The wallpaper remains.
But Einstein’s last words have sunk into oblivion - the nurse did not know German.
Doctors are people who, if not constantly, then periodically face death. Philosophers also have a special, unique attitude towards death. Speakers are also very unique people, with their own attitude to this phenomenon. What did they say before they died? Our research will show.
Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
Died in a foreign land. Before his death, his friends asked him if he wanted his body to be transported to his homeland after death. “This is not necessary at all,” answered Anaxagoras, “after all, the path to underground kingdom the same length from everywhere.”
Anaxarchus (IV century BC) – ancient Greek philosopher
Once at a feast at Alexander the Great, when asked: “How does he like the treat?” the philosopher replied that it would be nice to add the head of one tyrant to the table. By this he hinted at Nikokriont (the king of the Cypriot city of Salamis, about whose cruelty there were legends) present at the feast. He turned out to be vindictive, and after the death of the Macedonian he ordered Anaxarchus to be pounded in a mortar with iron pestles. The dying words of the philosopher catchphrase: “Tear and grind the bodily shell of Anaxarchus, you won’t crush Anaxarchus himself!”
Henri Saint-Simon (1760-18250 – French utopian socialist
"Our business is in our hands..."
Aristotle (384-322 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato, educator of Alexander the Great
In his dying will, he decided on the fate of his children and gave freedom to several slaves.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) – German philosopher
His friends asked where he would like to rest after death. “It doesn't matter. People who want to visit my grave will be able to find it,” Schopenhauer replied.
Archimedes (287-212 BC) – ancient Greek scientist
When one of the Roman soldiers burst into Archimedes' house, the scientist was busy solving a geometric problem, drawing figures in the sand. His last words addressed to the invader: “Don’t touch my drawings!”
Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) – Dutch philosopher
He asked that priests not be allowed to see him.
Vasily Rozanov (1856-1919) – Russian philosopher
Before his death, he told his relatives: “Hug all of you... Let’s kiss in the name of the risen Christ. Christ is risen".
Vasily Tatishchev (1686-1750) – Russian historian, statesman
He knew exactly the day he would die, despite the fact that he was not seriously ill. On the eve of his death, he ordered his grave to be dug, confessed, took communion, and died a few hours later.
Voltaire (1694-1778) – French philosopher
His faithful old servant was on duty near his deathbed. Before his death, Voltaire squeezed his hand and said: “Farewell, dear Morand, I am dying.”
Heraclitus (late 6th - early 5th century BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
He asked the doctors if they could drain his body by removing the water from it, and having received a refusal, he ordered the slaves to put him in the sun and cover him with manure. In this state he died for two days.
Demosthenes (384-322 BC) – ancient Greek orator
He was pursued by Macedonian warriors, from whom he hid in the temple of Poseidon ( ancient Greek god seas - author). To the promise of one of them - Archius - not to harm him if he surrendered, Demosthenes replied: “Before, Archius, you could not dissolve me with your play in the theater, but now you will not deceive me with your promise ...” and took poison.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) – French philosopher
“The first step in philosophy is doubt.”
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) – Italian philosopher and poet
He was burned as a heretic. His last words: “To burn does not mean to refute.”
Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585-1619) – Italian philosopher, follower of Giordano Bruno
It was also burned. Before his death he stated: “There is neither God nor the devil, for if there was a God, I would ask him to strike parliament with lightning as completely unrighteous, if there was a devil, I would ask him to swallow this parliament,
Diogenes of Sinope (about 400 - 323 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
He asked not to bury him. To the question: “What, throw it to be devoured by wild beasts and vultures?” - replied: “Not at all! Place a stick next to me and I will drive them away.” The next question is: “How? Will you feel it? - was awarded the following answer: “And if I don’t feel it, then what do I care about the gnawing animals?”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) – French philosopher and writer
Before his death he suffered greatly from stomach pain. Shortly before his death, his wife brought him a cup of broth. Rousseau no longer exists. “My insides can’t accept anything anymore, I can’t even take a sip...” he groaned.
Jean Paul Sartre (105-1980) – French writer, philosopher, publicist
“I love you very much, darling,” these last words were addressed to his wife.
Julien Aufrin de La Mettrie (1709-1751) – French philosopher and physician
All my life I denied God. Before his death, the priest tried to return him to the fold of the church. De La Mettrie replied: “What will they say about me if I recover?”
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) – Austrian psychiatrist
He turned to the attending physician: “My dear Shur? Do you remember our first conversation? You promised not to leave me when my time came. Now all this is just torture and no longer makes sense.” The doctor hastened the onset of death with morphine.
Ibn Sina (980-1037) - Tajik scientist, philosopher, doctor, musician, poet
Finally, I composed a quatrain and read it:
From black dust to celestial bodies
I unraveled the secrets of the wisest words and deeds.
I avoided deceit, untangled all the knots,
I just couldn’t unravel the knot of death...
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) – German philosopher
"Fine!"
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) – Swiss psychologist, founder of “English” (analytical) psychology
Shortly before his death, he had a dream. waking up, he said: “Now I know almost the whole truth, except for one small detail. When I recognize her too, I will already be dead.” 
Confucius (551-479 BC) - ancient Chinese philosopher
“Who, after my death, will take the trouble to continue my teaching?”
Li Zhi (1527-1602) – Chinese philosopher
They wanted to put him in prison for his heretical views. But he grabbed the guard's sword and cut his throat. To the question: “Why did you do this?” - answered: “What remains after seventy-five?”
Michel Nostradamus (1503-1566) – French physician and astrologer
When saying goodbye to a friend, he said: “You will not see me alive at sunrise.”
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) – Italian philosopher, politician, historian
“After death, I want to go to hell, not heaven. There I can enjoy the company of popes, kings and dukes, while heaven is inhabited only by beggars, monks and apostles.”
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) – Russian philosopher
Shortly before his death he wrote in his diary: “I am very famous in Europe and America, even in Asia and Australia, translated into many languages, a lot has been written about me. There is only one country in which they hardly know me - this is my homeland.”
Nikolai Pirogov (1810-1881) – Russian surgeon
Before his death, I read Pushkin paraphrased:
Not accidental, not in vain,
A mysterious, beautiful gift,
Life, you were given to me for a purpose!
Auguste Comte (1798-1757) – French philosopher
Before his death, he declared himself an apostle and clergyman of a materialistic religion.
Omar Khayyam (c. 1040 – 1123) – Persian and Tajik poet, mathematician and philosopher
Having completed evening prayer, he bowed to the ground and said: “O Allah, You know that I have known You to the best of my ability. Forgive me, my knowledge of You is my path to You.”
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) – German philosopher
On the morning of the day of death, he felt it approaching and told the doctor: “Today I will be a perfect ascetic. Yesterday I spent a long time choosing my menu for today, but now I won’t eat a single piece.”
Pythagoras (about 570 - 500 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
Many were dissatisfied with his teaching. He decided to run away. They were chasing him. On his way there was a field sown with beans. More than anything else, Pythagoras respected the work of other people. He stopped and said: “It’s better to die than to trample beans!” This is where he was killed.
Plato (427-347 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
When asked whether they would write about him after his death, he replied: “It would be good name, and there will be notes.”
René Descartes (1596-1650) – French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and physiologist
“It’s time to go, my soul...”
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) – Indian humanist thinker, religious reformer, public figure
“The older I get, the more deeply I comprehend the meaning of the Indian idea that the highest of beings is man!”
Seneca (circa 14 BC - 65 AD) - ancient Roman philosopher, educator of Emperor Nero
He committed suicide on the orders of Nero by opening his veins, but death did not occur. Then he took poison, which also did not work. Then he entered hot bath and, sprinkling water on the slaves surrounding him, said: “This is a reward to Jupiter the Liberator.”
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) – Danish philosopher
He asked that a gravestone inscription be made for him: “The One.”
Socrates (470-399 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
He was sentenced to death. IN Ancient Greece the condemned person often carried out the sentence himself. Socrates took poison.
There are two versions of his dying words.
Version one. “But it’s time to leave here, for me to die, for you to live, and which is better, no one knows except God.”
Version two. To his wife’s words: “You are dying innocently,” he replied: “Would you like it to happen deservedly?” 
Theophrastus (372-288 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher, naturalist
The disciples asked Theophrastus, who was lying on his deathbed, what he commanded them. His answer was worthy of a philosopher: “I have nothing to command you - except to say that many of life’s pleasures are only apparently famous for such. Having barely begun to live, we die, so there is nothing more useless than the pursuit of glory. Be well, and either leave my science - for it requires a lot of work - or defend it with honor, and then you will be of great benefit. There is more empty than useful in life. I can no longer advise you on how to behave; See for yourself what to do and what not to do.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) – English philosopher
"I'm going to my last trip. I'm taking a huge leap into the darkness."
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) – Austrian physician
Before his death, he asked to be played on the glass harmonica that he played. young Mozart when I was in his house.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) – English philosopher
I was freezing meat to find out if cold could prevent spoilage, and I caught a bad cold. IN suicide letter wrote: “I am threatened with the fate of Pliny, who approached Vesuvius in order to better observe the eruption.
Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) – German philosopher
“God, at least one hour of peace tonight.”
Zhuang Zi (circa 369-286 BC) - ancient Chinese philosopher
When he learned before his death that his disciples wanted to give him a magnificent funeral, he said: “What is this for? My coffin will be the earth, my sarcophagus will be the sky, jade plaques will be the sun and moon, pearls will be the stars, and all living things will be a funeral procession; isn’t everything already prepared for my funeral?”
The disciples answered: “We are afraid that you will be pecked by crows and kites.”
The answer to this was the following words of the philosopher: “Crows and kites will peck on the ground, ants and mole crickets will eat underground. So is it worth taking from some to give to others?”
Charles Fourier (1772-1837) – French utopian socialist
His last words were a wish good sleep to the gatekeeper.
Aesop (640-560 BC) – ancient Greek philosopher, fabulist
He was sentenced to death. Aesop had to throw himself off a cliff. Before doing this, he told his last fable:
“One man fell in love with his own daughter, and his passion drove him so far that he sent his wife to the village, and grabbed his daughter and took possession of her by force. The daughter said: “Your wicked deed, father, it would be better if a hundred men got me than you alone.” So I say to you, citizens of Delphi: it would be better for me to wander around Syria, Phenicia and Judea than to unexpectedly die here at your hands.”
Epicurus (341-270 BC) - ancient Greek philosopher
He became famous for the fact that he considered sensory sensations, and not reason, to be the main thing in life. Before his death, he lay down in the bath, drank strong wine, wished his friends not to forget his teaching, and died.
1.Oscar Wilde, the great esthete and master of paradoxes, died in a room with tasteless wallpaper. Even in the face of death, his refined taste and sense of humor remained intact. After the words: “Killer colors! One of us will have to leave here” - he left for another world.
2. Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin greeted death with the question: “Is that you, fool?”
3. Eugene O'Neill lamented before his death: “I knew it!” I knew it! I was born in a hotel and, damn it, I’m dying in a hotel.”
4. William Somerset Maugham took care of those who remained: “Dying is a boring and joyless thing. My advice to you is never do this.”
5. Last words William Saroyan is not without grace and self-irony: “Everyone is destined to die, but I always thought that they would make an exception for me. And what?"
6. Dying, Honore de Balzac remembered one of the characters in his stories, the experienced doctor Bianchon. “He would have saved me,” sighed the great writer.
7. Johann Wolfgang Goethe said right before his death: “More light!” Before this, he asked the doctor how long he had left to live. When the doctor admitted that he didn't more than an hour, Goethe sighed with relief with the words: “Thank God, it’s only an hour!”
8. Dying in the town of Bougival near Paris, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev uttered mysterious words: “Farewell, my dears, my whitish ones...”.
9. "So what's the answer?" asked Gertrude Stein as she was wheeled 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 is the question then?” The writer never woke up from the anesthesia.
10. The French writer, poet and playwright Felix Arver died as a true champion of language. Hearing a nurse say to someone: “It’s at the end of the KoLidora,” he groaned with the last of his strength: “Not the KoLidora, but the KoRidora!” - and died.
Last words of famous people
Many people are probably wondering what they will think about in the last moments of their lives. In the face of death, everyone thinks and talks about their own things - some say goodbye to family and friends, others try to do what they love until the very end, and still others find nothing better than to utter some kind of barb at those present.
For your attention - the dying statements of individuals who, one way or another, left their mark on history.
Rafael Santi, artist
"Happy."
Gustav Mahler, composer
Gustav Mahler died in his bed. IN last minutes in his 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 was singing psalms at his deathbed and he said: “Why the hell do I need all these songs, Holy Father? You’re 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 minutes of his life, Sartre, turning to his beloved, Simone de Beauvoir, said: “I love you so much, my dear Beaver.”
Nostradamus, doctor, alchemist, astrologer
The thinker’s dying 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 flight.”
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 didn’t do it on purpose.”
Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician
“I don’t know how the world perceived me. To myself I always seemed like a boy playing on the seashore and amusing myself with searching for beautiful pebbles and shells, while the great ocean of truth lay unknown before me.”
Leonardo da Vinci, thinker, scientist, artist
“I offended God and people, because in my works I did not reach the heights to which I aspired.”
Benjamin Franklin, politician, diplomat, scientist, journalist
When his daughter asked 84-year-old seriously ill Franklin to lie down differently so that he could breathe easier, the old man, sensing the imminent end, grumpily said: “Nothing comes easy to a dying person.”
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.” Last wish the mafioso was fulfilled - 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, kitty". Then he went to his room, and a few minutes later his wife heard a loud, abrupt sound - the writer committed suicide with a shot in the head.
Alfred Hitchcock, film director, master of suspense
“Nobody knows what the ending will be. To know exactly what will happen after death, you need to 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
“I’m so 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!".
Empress
Elizaveta Petrovna extremely surprised the doctors when, half a minute before her death
rose up on the pillows and, as always, menacingly, asked: “Am I still
alive?!” But before the doctors had time to get scared, everything corrected itself.
Count Tolstoy said the last thing on his deathbed: “I would like to hear the gypsies - and I don’t need anything else!”
Composer Edvard Grieg: “Well, if this is inevitable...”.
Pavlov: “Academician Pavlov is busy. He is dying.”
The famous naturalist Lacepede gave the order to his son: “Charles, write the word END in large letters at the end of my manuscript.”
Physicist Gay-Lussac: “It’s a pity to leave at such an interesting moment”
Louis XV's daughter Louise: "Gallop to heaven! Gallop to heaven!"
Victor Hugo: "I see a black light...".
Eugene O'Neill, writer: "I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel and... damn it... dying in a hotel."
George Byron: "Well, I'm off to bed."
Louis XIV shouted at his household: “Why are you crying? Did you think I was immortal?”
Father
dialectics Friedrich Hegel: "Only one person understood me in
throughout his life... But in essence... he didn’t understand me either!”
"Wait
just a minute." Pope Alexander VI said this. Everyone did so,
but, alas, nothing worked out, dad still died.
Vaslav Nijinsky, Anatole France, Garibaldi whispered the same word before their death: “Mama!”
Euripides,
who, according to rumors, was simply terrified of his imminent death, when asked
what could such a great philosopher fear in death, answered: “What I
I don't know anything."
Dying, Balzac recalled one of the characters in his stories, the experienced doctor Bianchon: “He would have saved me...”.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: "Hope!.. Hope! Hope!.. Damned!"
Before his execution, Mikhail Romanov gave his boots to the executioners: “Use them, guys, they are royal after all.”
Spy-dancer Mata Hari blew a kiss to the soldiers aiming at her: “I’m ready, boys.”
The philosopher Immanuel Kant said just one word before his death: “Enough.”
One of the filmmaker brothers, 92-year-old O. Lumiere: “My film is running out.”
Ibsen, after lying for several years in silent paralysis, stood up and said: “On the contrary!” - and died.
Nadezhda Mandelstam to her nurse: “Don’t be afraid.”
Alexander Blok: “Russia ate me like a stupid pig of its own”
Somerset Maugham: "Dying is boring. Never do it!"
Heinrich Heine: "God will forgive me! This is his work."
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev on his deathbed uttered a strange thing: “Farewell, my dears, my whitish ones...”.
The famous English surgeon Joseph Green, out of medical habit, measured his pulse. “The pulse is gone,” he said.
Poet
Felix Arver, hearing a nurse say to someone: "It's at the end
KoLidora,” groaned with all his might: “Not KoLidora, but KoRidora,” and died.
Leonardo da Vinci: “I insulted God and people! My works did not reach the heights to which I aspired!”
Fyodor Tyutchev: “What a torment that you can’t find a word to convey a thought”
Paulette Brilat-Savarin, the sister of a famous French gastronome, on her hundredth birthday, after the third course, feeling the approach of death, said: “Hurry up, serve the compote - I’m dying.”
Oscar
Wilde, dying in his hotel room, looked around with his fading gaze
tasteless wallpaper on the walls and sighed: “They are killing me. Some of us
I'll have to leave." He left. The wallpaper remained.
But Einstein’s last words have sunk into oblivion - the nurse did not know German...
It is the last words spoken on a deathbed that often turn out to be an example of concentrated wisdom and perfectly summarize the rich life experience a man who changed the world.
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
“How can I get out of this labyrinth?”
A general who fought for the independence of the Spanish colonies and became president of Gran Colombia, a state founded on lands liberated from oppression. National heroVenezuela and all Latin America still reminds of itself with portraits on the monetary units of many South American states. Your days great commander graduated in peaceful contemplation of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“The last words are needed by fools who did not say enough during their lifetime.”
World famous German philosopher, political scientist, economist and sociologist Karl Marx was called a prophet by many. The broadest scope of the mind required no less abundant discharge, which is probably why the genius was often noticed with a destructive passion for drinking and smoking. The higher you fly, the more painful it is to fall: for all his glory, Marx died in poverty and illness.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“Killer wallpaper colors! One of us will have to leave."
Irish poet and writer, master of romantic style and hero of tragic storytelling own life, Oscar Wilde always perceived the world through the prism of the highest aesthetic sense, which did not change him even before his death. The talented writer suffered numerous persecutions during his lifetime, but his gift of the picturesque word was enthusiastically appreciated by his descendants. Wilde's tombstone is covered with thousands of imprints of kisses, replenished day after day with new expressions of gratitude from fans.
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
“Well, if it’s necessary...”
Norwegian apologist classical music, author of the soul-stirring drama suites Peer Gynt and Lyric Pieces, Edvard Grieg was incredibly productive in his work, filling the lush Scandinavian folklore with melodies. Unable to tear himself away from his favorite pastime, the seriously ill composer played music until his death. last day. All of Norway mourned his death.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
“Farewell, my friends. I'm going to glory!"
The virtuoso ballerina and muse, who gave inspiration to Sergei Yesenin, drove her contemporaries crazy with her impeccable sense of style and self-esteem. Her innovative approach to the art of dance was designed to reflect the beauty of human nature. The death of the prima turned out to be similar to the dramatic finale of the performance - Isadora's scarf flowing through the air hit the axle of the wheel of the car she was driving.
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Kurt Russell
The business tycoon, animator, philanthropist, who colored the childhood of millions of people with magic, was a leading personality of his time. Creating exciting stories during his lifetime, the master left something interesting even after his departure: the note on which Disney wrote his last words contains only the name of actor Kurt Russell, who was only 15 years old at that time. No one, including Russell himself, can explain this fact.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
“Why not? After all, it (the soul) belongs to Him."
The career of the great actor began when, at the age of five, he appeared on stage with a song and received a storm of applause from the audience. From that moment on, creativity did not stop until Chaplin’s death. The famous slightly awkward image of a man in a bowler hat and baggy pants has become a real symbol of the heyday of game cinema. Sometimes, to make his gait more angular, Chaplin swapped his right and left shoes. The actor's dying phrase was addressed to the priest, who offered to pray for God to accept his soul.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
"I hope you're not tired of me"
The figure of the star king of the stage has always condensed a wide variety of rumors around him. A lot of intrigues and affairs, problems with drugs, difficult relationships with former friends and a rather eccentric disposition that filled Elvis’s life culminated in an equally scandalous death. No one can say with certainty whether it was natural, although official documents list cardiac arrhythmia.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
“Where is my watch?”
The wizard of surrealism, who turned traditional art inside out and made the public adore him, Salvador Dali never missed a moment to demonstrate all the facets of his eccentric nature. Being an old man exhausted by illness, even at the very last moment of his life he did not abandon his manner of looking like the master of the situation, searching for his watch instead of concentrating on suffering.
Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
“It’s better to burn than to smolder”
Life talented musician, and especially its ending, is a comprehensive illustration of the last words written in his suicide note. Cobain seemed to be walking on the edge of a knife, flirting with death every now and then: collecting firearms, delving into the abyss of drug addiction, escaping from rehabilitation centers, without letting loved ones know about your whereabouts. At the peak of exhaustion from depression, Kurt Cobain shot himself in the forehead while sitting alone in his home.
Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937-2005)
"Relax, it won't hurt"
Writer and publicist, founder of the genre of "gonzo journalism" and author of the novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Hunter Thompson was awarded throughout his life with such characteristics as "rebel", "indomitable" and "rebellious nature" - starting with military service and ending with the much more peaceful everyday life of working in the editorial offices of various magazines and newspapers. The writer reacted to his death with a large share balance, writing a few days before shooting himself, suicide note, in which he reproached himself for the greed of the desire to live more. Thompson's ashes, by his personal will, were loaded into a cannon and scattered in the sky with a salvo.
