Famous Last Words/Literature

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


See Famous Last Words for a full description. Again, this is a Death Trope, so expect spoilers. Only spoiler-tag character names please.

Discworld

  • The Colour of Magic
    • "Sloppy workmanship." Dactylos Goldeneyes, commenting on the arrow that just pierced his chest.
  • Guards! Guards!
  • Reaper Man
    • "What I could do with right now is one of Mr Dibbler's famous meat pies-" Windle Poons, the first time he died
    • "For YOU?" the New Death
  • Small Gods
    • "One hundred years. Mmm. Good lord. I forgot. I forgot. One hundred years, eh? But here and now, we --" Brutha
      • Given his history, the missing words are presumably "are alive."
  • Men at Arms
    • "Free!" Big Fido
    • "But why? You could have been..." Dr. Cruces
  • Interesting Times
    • "May you live in interesting times! I would rather die than betray my Emperor!" A palace guard. Cohen kills him.
    • "I would rather die than have one such as you as Emperor!" The Lord Chamberlain. Cohen kills him too.
    • "Yes, let everyone see what happens." Lord Hong
  • Maskerade
    • "But... why are you --" Dr. Undershaft
    • "Whatever happens, it can't be worse than a season of opera!!!! I don't mind where I'm going so long as there are no fat men pretending to be thin boys, and no huge long songs which everyone says are so beautiful just because they don't understand what the hell they're actually about!!!! Ah--Ah-argh..." Mr. Salzella
    • "Incidentally, another thing I can't stand about opera are the plots. They make no sense!! And no one ever says so!!! And the quality of the acting? It's nonexistent!! Everyone stands around watching the person who's singing. Ye gods, it's going to be a relief to put that behind... ah... argh..." Salzella again.
    • "Leave? Leave the opera? ... Argh argh argh..." Salzella. Yet again.
    • "You know what really gets me down, is the way that in opera everyone takes such a long!!!! ... time!!! ... to!!!! ... argh... argh... argh..." I think you get the idea here.
  • The Truth
    • "You better hurry! It's only a coupla inches away!" Mr. Tulip
    • "G't m' 'tato! All right, okay?" Mr. Pin
  • Going Postal
    • "I commend my soul to any god which can find it." Albert Spangler. Although Moist Von Lipwig, to his surprise, goes on living.
      • Note that this is because he got a second chance. His original: "I wasn't really expecting to die."
  • The Wee Free Men
    • "To Tiffan, I say, be wary. Somewhere a' stories are real, a' songs are true." the Kelda
  • Wintersmith
    • "It's a wonderful bit of folklore, a real corker. Miss Treason and her clockwork heart! Might even become a myth, if I'm lucky. They'll remember Miss Treason for thousands of years!" Eumenides Treason
    • "I am Winter. I cannot be anything else.]]" The Wintersmith
  • Note that for some of these, they aren't the actual last words, as often times a brief conversation with Death ensues.

Dune

  • "You... think... you... de... feated... me. You... think... I... did... not... know... what... I... bought... for... my... Wanna?" Dr. Yueh Wellington
  • "And I am a desert creature. You see me, Father? I am a desert creature." Liet-Kynes' last thoughts
  • "You... You..." Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, after Alia stabs him with a gom jabbar
  • "See, Majesty? See your traitor's needle? Do you think I who've given my life to service of the Atreides would give them less now?" Thufir Hawat
  • "Now I am free." Paul Atreides/Muad'dib's last recorded words
  • "One blasphemy remains! Blasphemy! And the name of that blasphemy is Alia!" The Preacher, aka Muad'dib
  • "Mother, what’re they doing? What do you want me to do? Help me!" Alia Atreides
  • "You have no body shield. Do you wish mine?" Duncan Idaho
  • "Two deaths for the Atreides. The second for no better reason than the first." Duncan Idaho, after his first revival as a ghola
  • "Siona." Duncan Idaho... again.
  • "Leto, you are the best! There's no evil that can surpass--" Malky
  • "Leto! Siaynoq! I believe!" Moneo
  • "I shall go on ahead, Love." Hwi Noree
  • "Lord? You live?" Nayla
  • "Stop that foolishness!" Leto II
  • "I have won!" Mother Superior Taraza
  • "Do what you must, daughter. That worm in the hold may soon be the only one in the universe." Miles Teg, to Darwi Odrade
  • "Do not interrupt my thoughts." Great Honored Matre Dama, before dying of poison

Harry Potter

  • "Master, I cannot hold him! My hands, my hands!" Professor Quirrel, after his hands start to crumble to ash after Harry grabs his hand
    • "WHAT IS THIS MAGIC?!?" Professor Quirrell (film version)
  • "I dunno. Wands out, d'you reckon?" Cedric Diggory
    • "Who are you? What do you want?" Cedric Diggory (film version)
  • "Come on, you can do better than that!" Sirius Black
    • "Nice one, James!" Sirius Black (film version), said to Harry after a good shot.
  • "Severus, please..." Albus Dumbledore
  • "Harry... Potter..." Dobby
    • "Such a beatiful place to be with frends" (the film version)
  • "Kill me, then! You will not win, you cannot win! That wand will never, ever be yours-" Gellert Grindelwald - though maybe more of a Facing the Bullets One-Liner.
  • "You actually are joking, Perce... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-" Fred Weasley.
  • "Look...at...me..." Severus Snape
    • "You have your mother's eyes..." Severus Snape in the movie.
  • "Like it hot, scum?" Vincent Crabbe
  • "What will happen to your children once I've killed you? When Mummy's gone the same way as Freddie?" Bellatrix Lestrange to Molly Weasley before the latter kills her.
  • "Avada Kedavra!" Voldemort
    • Twice, actually. And to the same person.
  • "No...." Peter Pettigrew
  • "Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!" James Potter.
  • "Not Harry! Please.... Have mercy... Have mercy.... Not Harry! Not Harry! Please- I'll do anything-" Lily Potter

The Lord of the Rings

  • The Hobbit
    • "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage, and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!" Thorin Oakenshield
  • The Lord of the Rings
    • "O, my Precious!" Gollum
    • "Farewell Aragorn. Go to Minas Tirith and save my people. I have failed." Boromir
    • "Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" The Witch-King
    • "Hail, King of the Mark! Ride now to Victory! Bid Eowyn farewell!" Theoden
    • "Come hither! Come, if you are not all recreant!" Denethor
    • "You do what Sharkey says, always, don't you, Worm? Well now he says: Follow!" Saruman
    • "Fly, you fools!" Gandalf the Grey
  • The Silmarillion
    • "It will be long ere I am seen among the Noldor again; and it may be that we shall not meet a second time in death or life, for the fates of our kindreds are apart. Farewell!" Finrod Felagund, to Beren
    • "Now is the Quest achieved, and my doom full-wrought." Beren. He got better, temporarily.
  • The Children of Hurin
    • "My hurts are too deep even for your healing" Androg
    • "Now if you love me, leave me! Haste you to Nargothrond, and save Finduilas. And this last I say to you: she alone stands between you and your doom. If you fail her, it shall not fail to find you. Farewell!" Gwindor
    • "Mormegil. Tell the Mormegil that Finduilas is here." Finduilas
    • "Hail, Nienor, daughter of Hurin. We meet again ere the end. I give thee joy that thou hast found thy brother at last. And now thou shalt know him: a stabber in the dark, treacherous to foes, faithless to friends, and a curse unto his kind, Turin son of Hurin! But the worst of all his deeds thou shalt feel in thyself." Glaurung the dragon, to Nienor, who he had made amnesiac, as he gives her her memory back.
    • "A Turin Turambar turun ambartanen: master of doom by doom mastered! O happy to be dead!" Nienor, after getting her memory back and realizing she'd married her brother.
    • "Keep your hate! It is as feeble as all your counsels. But for me the Orcs would have come and hung you as a scarecrow in your garden. Take the name skulker to yourself!" Dorlas
    • "All that has chanced is a long tale to tell, and I am weary of you. But you slander me, son of Hurin. Did Glaurung slander you? If you slay me, then all shall see that he did not. Yet I do not fear to die, for then I will go to seek Niniel whom I loved, and perhaps I may find her again beyond the sea." Brandir
    • "Hail Gurthang! No lord or loyalty dost thou know, save the hand that wieldeth thee. From no blood wilt thou shrink. Wilt thou therefore take Turin Turambar, wilt thou slay me swiftly?" Turin, before falling on his sword, Gurthang.
    • "If you know, tell me! How did she find him?" Morwen

Other works

  • Abarat
    • "Yes, Lord, please, Lord. I'd be more use to you alive, I swear." Mendelson Shape
    • "No, please no! Help me!" Otto Houlihan
    • "Enough. Please... enough." Lavinia White
    • "Damn! Somebody in this House just undid my spell! We're in trouble, girl--" Diamanda
    • "What have I ever done to you? I'm an innocent man! Do you hear me? An innocent--" Kaspar Wolfswinkel
    • "Never fear, angel... I've got you now. And for always." Christopher Carrion. He gets better.
    • "Tell Mama: She'll understand." Covenantis
    • "No, Mother, please! No, I didn't mean. No, no, no--" Maratien
    • "I had no knowledge of this, Empress." Voorzangler
    • "M'lady, please. I meant no disrespect. I only--" Hemosh
  • Alex Benedict
    • "No. That's not so." Matt Olander
    • "Goodbye, Chase. It'll be--" Charlie Everson
    • "Whatever you're doing, Chase, please stop. Please. I'll open up." Winetta "Windy" Yashevik
  • And Then There Were None
    • "The legal life's narrowing! I'm all for crime! Here's to it." Anthony Marston, before he takes a drink... which is poisoned.
    • "Now look here, my dear girl...you just listen..." Philip Lombard, before getting shot
  • Animorphs
    • "I love you." Rachel, to Tobias.
      • (final thoughts, some time later) "I wonder if..." Rachel.
    • "JAKE, STOP HER!" Tom, right before Rachel kills him.
    • "So. You win... human." Temrass, the Yeerk who infests Jake.
    • "Ram the Blade ship." Jake, in the end of the story. Probably
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy
    • "Take the boy! Leave me!" Arthur Underwood
    • "But he was not a worthy man -- was he, John? He was a driveling idiot. Now you will lose your life for him. You should have stayed away." Maurice Schyler
    • "Coward! Always you sneak and crawl and run and hide." Jabor
    • "Yes! See? There she is! Take her first!" Simon Lovelace
    • "You assume wrongly." Jessica Whitwell
    • "Your discovery is remarkable. But it comes too late for me." Farqual
    • "Say hello to Kitty for me." Nathaniel
  • Carrie
    • "momma i'm sorry where" Carrie White, last thoughts
  • Catch-22
    • "I'm cold..." Snowden
    • "Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage." Snowden's secret.
  • Ciaphas Cain
    • "The brood will survive. A new patriarch will arise--" Governor Grice
    • "Emperor be with you, Bonica." Sister Eglantine
    • "In nomine Imperiator!" Sister Bonica
    • "Sorry, sir, it's just too strong to fight for long. Kick his arse for me." Commissar Donal, before killing himself to escape from Mind Control.
    • "Well, that was unexpected, wasn't it?" Varan the Undefeatable, before Cain kicks his arse... off a skyscraper.
  • Chaos Walking
    • "Todd?!" Manchee
    • "No, Not you," in Aaron's Noise
    • [spoken] "Pa," [in his Noise] "Please." Davy Prentiss
    • “This world will be shaped by the two of you for years to come, Todd... And I, for one, am glad that I shall never have to see it.” Mayor Prentiss.
  • The Chronicles of Narnia
    • "Put that sword back in its sheath, Caspian. Murder at council, eh? Is that your game? Don't be fool enough to try it. Do you think I'm afraid of you? There's three on my side, and three on yours." Nikabrik
    • "Oh, is she? Oh, bless his heart, his dear little Majesty needn't mind about the White Lady-that's what we call her-being dead. The Worshipful Master Doctor is only making game of a poor old woman like me when he says that. Sweet Master Doctor, learned Master Doctor, who ever heard of a witch that really died? You can always get them back." The Hag
    • "Call her up. We are all ready. Draw the circle. Prepare the blue fire." The Were-Wolf
    • "Treachery! Treachery! The Narnian traitor has stabbed him in the back while he lay helpless. To arms! To arms, Telmar." Sopespian
    • "What are you doing? Dare to touch my fire again, mud-filth, and I'll turn the blood to fire inside your veins." The Lady of the Green Kirtle
  • The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
    • "Ah, Kevin! Life is sweet, and I have lived so short a time! Must I pass away?" Amok
    • "Kevin! Hold!" Morin
    • "I love you. I have not changed. Free the Ranyhyn." Lena
    • "Covenant! Beloved! Strike a blow for me!" High Lord Elena's ghost
    • "You are not to blame. She was -- flawed from birth." Triock
    • "Do not fear for me. Thomas Covenant, ur-Lord and Unbeliever, brave white-gold wielder -- I desire no other end. Do whatever you must, my friend. I am at Peace. I have beheld a marvelous story." Saltheart Foamfollower
    • "You never loved me anyway." Linden Avery's father
    • "My life!" Kasreyn of the Gyre
    • "Do not!" Cable Seadreamer
    • "Very well. Withhold -- and be lost. The Land is ill-served by those who will not pay the price of love." Caer-Caveral
    • "Big deal. I could do the same thing -- if I were as crazy as you. It doesn't take power. Just delusion. You're out of your mind." Thomas Covenant
    • "I am Elohim. Kastenessen cursed me with death -- but I am not made for death. I must not die." Findail
  • The Dark Tower
    • Wizard and Glass
      • "Son of a bitch, oh you little sister-fucking son of a bitch!" Roy Depape
      • "Give it back, you brat! Give it back, it's mine!" Eldred Jonas
      • "ROLAND, I LOVE THEE!" - Susan Delgado
    • The Dark Tower
      • "Thank you for my second chance. Thank you... Father." Eddie Dean
      • "May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!" Pere Callahan
      • "Y'won't shit on me, will you?" Randall Flagg, said to Mordred before being torn apart and eaten alive.
  • Desperation
    • "GOD FORGIVE ME, I HATE CRITICS!" Johnny Marinville
  • A Dog of Flanders
    • "We shall see His face there, and He will not part us, I think." Nello, right before he and his dog Pastrache freeze to death on Christmas Eve.
  • The Dresden Files
    • "Because you knew. You knew what it was like to be an innocent man hounded by the Wardens." Warden Donald Morgan
    • "Maggie." [1] Susan Rodriguez
    • "DIE ALONE." Quintus Cassius
    • "I don't understand...." Aurora
    • Typical. Even when you're dead, it doesn't get any easier. Harry Dresden
  • Expendable
    • "Oh shit." Most frequent last words of Explorers.
    • "Fucking Explorer. This is what expendable means." Oar. She gets better.
  • Firestarter
    • "There. So I can see your eyes. I love you, Charlie." John Rainbird
    • ...love you, Ch... Andy McGee
  • Grendel
    • "Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all." Grendel
  • Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
    • "Die? Didn't you know? Spartans never die." Kurt; of course, he is referencing the fact that, for propaganda purposes, officially, Spartans are ALWAYS listed as missing in action.
      • And the line which prompts the above quote: "One last fight demon. You shall die, and we shall reopen the silver path." Fleet Master Voro, before Kurt detonates the nuke
    • "Sir, I think I got nicked," Dante
    • "How are you sure we're alive?" Lucy Qualifies because even though she didn't die, that was the last thing she ever said. Until Glasslands, that is.
  • Halo: Contact Harvest
    • "This is my ship, and I shall do with it what I wish." Shipmistress Chur'R-Yar, before detonating her own ship to try and take Sgt. Johnson with her.
  • His Dark Materials
    • "LYRA!" Roger
    • "Go. You are brave, and your friend is clever. And you have the knife. Go." Giacomo Paradisi
    • "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, and nor did we." Lee Scoresby
    • "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Hester
    • "Eve! Mother of all! Eve, again! Mother Eve!" Lena Feldt
    • "Wait. Before you go, I want to look at you properly." John Parry
    • "No, I can't explain. You're too young. It wouldn't make sense to you. I loved him. That's all. That's enough." Juta Kamainen
    • "Ah... It's the knife that will cut anything... Not even its makers knew what it could do... Nothing, no one, matter, spirit, angel, air -- nothing is invulnerable to the subtle knife. Marisa, it's mine, you understand?" Carlo Boreal/Sir Charles Latrom
    • "Yes. Yes. A cave... her mother... valley full of winds and rainbows... tattered flags on the shrine..." Baruch
    • "Metatron. It's time." Marisa Coulter
    • "Marisa! Marisa!" Lord Asriel
    • "It's not too late to repent. Even angels are allowed to do that. Let me hear your confession." Father Gomez
    • "Baruch, oh Baruch, my dear, I can do no more. Will and the girl are safe, and everything will be well, but this is the end for me, though truly I died when you did, Baruch my beloved." Balthamos
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • "I think I feel good about it." Marvin, reacting to God's Final Message to His Creation
    • "I wonder if it will be friends with me?" The whale
    • "Oh no, not again!" The bowl of petunias AKA Agrajag. One example out of many, presumably.
    • "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm so, so sorry..." Random.
  • Honor Harrington
    • "Eloi-" Javier Giscard, trying to say the name of his lover, Eloise.
    • "So now what? A big show trial before the execution? Proof of my 'crimes' for the Proles and the newsies?" Oscar Saint-Just right before he's unceremoniously shot
  • Holes
    • "Start digging." Kissin' Kate Barlow
  • The Hunger Games
    • "Sing." Rue
    • "Please." Cato
    • "Don’t trust them. Don’t go back. Kill Peeta. Do what you came to do." Boggs
    • "Katniss!" Prim
    • "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." President Snow
  • Infinity Beach
    • "Goodbye, Kim. Don't forget me." Solomon "Solly" Hobbes
    • "We want to talk to you. We are your friends." Sheyel Tolliver
    • "You have a number of talents, Kim. But acting is not among them." Benton Tripley
    • "Please. Give us a chance." Emily Brandywine
  • IT
    • "Don't call me Eds. You know I... I..." Eddie Kaspbrak
  • John Dies at the End
    • "So! We meat again, Marconi. You thought you had vanquished me but I--" The meat demon
    • "I'm okay, I'm okay, mon! Just give me a minute now! I'm feelin' better!" Robert the Fake Jamaican
    • "It's the adrenaline, I guess. I ain't really been tired. The thrill of the hunt. That, and those loud, piercing voices in my head." Lawrence Appleton
    • "Any of us could be... infected or whatever, but we gotta hang together. We're like, the fuckin' good guys here. Right?" Fred Chu
  • The Langoliers
    • "How can their little legs be fast? They don't have any le..." Craig Toomy, last thougts
    • "It was so wonderful to... you know... just to see." Dinah Bellman
    • "Oh my God, so BEAUTIFUL!" Nick Hopewell
  • The Laundry Series
    • "Good joke! I almost believed it for a minute!" Fred the Accountant
    • "Is that all? Yeah buddy, that's all." Plaid Shirt
    • "Get me out of this! That's an order! Get me out!" Pat McMurray
    • "I see you now!" Eileen
    • "I'M FREE!" The Matron
    • "Send me on, then." "Slug" Johnson's ghost
    • "What? Who ate all the pies? No, that can't be--" Dr. Kringle, Ret Goned by Time Paradox
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
    • "Arek!" Estraven. Arek was his sort-of-ex sort-of-spouse. Look, it's complicated in a society with neither formal marriage nor fixed gender.
  • The Long Walk:
    • "It isn't fair! It just isn't fair! It isn't --" Curley
    • "Hey, just a second, don't do that, I'll get up. Hey, don't! D --" Larson
    • "It hurts." Gribble
    • "I DID IT WRONG!" Hank Olson
    • "I fucked your mother and she sure was fine!" Scramm
    • "Not yet, you whores! I ain't gone yet! Notyeeeeeeetttt..." Gary Barkovitch
    • "Oh God. I don't. Feel. So good. Oh." Pearson
    • "You. Ba -- bas-- bast -- ba..." Collie Parker
    • "They're gonna eat us up! Eatus up! Eatusup! Up! Up! Eatusupeatusup --" George Fielder
    • "Another time, another place." Art Baker
    • "Are you gonna tell it or not?" Pete McVries
    • "Oh Garraty!" Stebbins
  • Keys to the Kingdom
    • All journeys must end. Goodbye brother. The Mariner
  • The Malazan Book of the Fallen
    • "If you so want Hood, Dassem Ultor, come and get him." Anomander Rake
    • "Son of Darkness, I was reconsider...". Hood.
    • "Now, I am done." Itkovian
    • "Whiskeyjack,kick the door open." Mallet's last thoughts
  • Les Misérables
    • "Long live the Republic!" Mabeuf
    • "Vive la France! Long live the future!" Jean Prouvaire
    • "And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you." Éponine
    • "I dropped from the air / because of Voltaire / to the gutter I go / because of - " Gavroche
    • "Will you permit it?" Grantaire, asking permission to die by Enjolras' side
    • "Give me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon them." Jean Valjean
  • Moby Dick
    • "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!" Captain Ahab
  • Nightside
    • "You wouldn't hit a lady, would you?" La Belle Dame Sans Merci
    • "Daddy, I only wanted you to be proud of me..." Billy Lathem
    • "Always knew you'd be the death of me. I wish... I could've brought you to see the Light. It really is so... glorious..." Pew
    • "Wherever you go, I'll be there in the shadows, hunting you. And one day I'll step out of a door or an alleyway and kill you dead, when you're least expecting it. I'll watch you choke on your own blood and laugh in your face as you die." Sandra Chance
    • "Kneel to you? I only ever knelt to one person. And you're not fit to polish his armor." Merlin Satanspawn
    • "He betrayed his faith. He was a thief. And an abomination." The Removal Man
    • "Don't move, Mr. Taylor. I've already take the precaution of shutting down your gift again, just in case you were thinking of using it on me. And you don't have anything else powerful enough to stop me." Gaylord du Rois
    • "Henry...?" The Collector
    • "Did I mention I was captain of the school fencing team? I had this lined with silver, John, just for you. No werewolf blood regenerations for you this time. My enemies stay dead." Henry Walker
    • "Good-bye, Mr. Taylor. When you see my children, tell them... some comforting lie." Oliver Newbury
    • "No! You can't do this! It's not fair!" Bijou De Montefort
    • "I would have found a way. I would have kept you with me forever. I will never stop hating and hurting the world that took you from me." Queen Mab
  • Oryx and Crake
    • "Goodbye. Remember Killer. I love you. Don't let me down." Snowman's mother
    • "I'm counting on you." Crake
  • Parrish Plessis
    • "Then why are you in his bloodlines register?" Jamon Mondo
    • "What would you know about biochemistry?" Io Lang
    • "Killing... me... won't stop it..." Sera Beau
    • "You got the change comin' now and I know how to stop it. You can be like me, living on forever. Say, grrlie, what you gonna choose?" Brilliance
    • "You're wrong. See, this time there is no choice." Parrish Plessis
  • Passage
    • "Tell Richard . . . SOS." Joanna
  • The Pilo Family Circus
    • "You dirty rotten, shouldn'ta, never shoulda,we gotta kill you dead, we just gotta, good and proper, you oughtn'ta done it, you really shouldn'ta..." Doopy the Clown.
    • "Beeee-yooo WIP!" Goshy the Clown.
    • "Took your time. We've been waiting for this a long time. We would have killed ourselves, if we hadn't thought there was a chance to bring you with us." Fishboy.
    • "Get me out of here. Out of this jam. Out of the trailer, pronto. Please please please..." JJ the Clown.
    • "You did it now, you stupid sonofabitch. You did it now..." Gonko the Clown.
    • "Fitting, isn't it?" Kurt Pilo.
  • Ranger's Apprentice
    • "My wife... My wife and the baby. Promise me you'll..." Daniel
    • "You! What are you doing here?" Kord
    • "You're a dead man, Arratay." Jerrel
    • "His name is Will." Daniel's wife
  • Redwall:
    • "See, they are twin pools of eternity. Sink into them, and you will find darkness and rest." Asmodeus.
    • "Come on down, mouse, Cluny the Scourge is waiting for you."
  • Remnants
    • "Oh, my God, all those people." Cordelia
    • "Did you feel that?" Connie Huerta
    • "Oh, god, oh god, it's still here. I can feel it. I can feel it." Big Bill
    • "What are they doing?" Shy Hwang
  • The Saga of the Noble Dead
    • "Tell me everything. I will care for you. I will take your sorrows and drain them away." Teesha
    • "And you would sacrifice me?" Bryen Massing
    • "Away. Away from here." Magelia
    • "Ubad! Master, save me!" Vordana
    • "il'Samar? I feel you with me... Will you not take her, after all the many years of my labor?" Ubad
    • "Korey... You know what he'll do to her." Ventina
    • "I'll add your head, mongrel. Soon enough. Now step aside!" Lord Darmouth
    • "I am my people, their ways and the protection of them... and I will not break a sacred oath!" Sgailsheilleache
    • "Keep your treachery, Byunduni!" Master Far-of-Kin
    • "I, Deep-Root, of the family of Rain, Tangle-Root clan of the Laughing Crag tribe in the nation of the Seatt under a Lord's Song, wish to be no more." Byunduni; aka Thalluhearag, Lord of Genocide
  • Second Apocalypse
    • "He says... says such sweet things to give me comfort... He says that one of my seed will return Seswatha. An Anasûrimbor will return -- at the end of the world." Anasûrimbor Celmomas II
    • "I CANNOT S--" The No-God
    • "You are the first, Chigra. And you will be the last..." Skeaös
    • "I would have you know... how much I hated you..." Kussalt
    • "The Logos is without beginning or end." Hifanat ab Tunukri
    • "Truth." Martemus
    • "To all those who heed the so-called Warrior-Prophet, know that we, the Orthodox, will doom you as you have doomed--" Fustaras
    • "My lord, I've--" Sarcellus/Gaörta
    • "Nooooo. This... is... the... only..." Krijates Xinemus
    • "This has been a disaster. An absolute disaster. You can be assured, General, that all this will find its way to official parch--" Ouras
    • "No man could do such a thing." Ikurei Conphas
    • "I am dying, Nayu. I need your strength..." Anasûrimbor Moënghus
    • "Not again! How could you leave me?" Cnaiür urs Skiötha
    • "There will be war for this! My father will sound the High Shi--" Baribul
    • "What the Mother gives... you must take!" Porsparian nesh Varalti
    • "Sister! You must tell my broth--!" Maithanet
    • "What just happened? Wh-what just..." Nil'giccas/Incariol/Cleric
  • Secret Histories
    • "I always dreamed of a last stand like this, defying impossible odds for a noble cause. To save the family, and the world. So, get them out of here, Eddie. Take down Truman and the tower. Make the family proud." Cyril Drood
    • "Kill me! I will die a human being, and myself; not some damned alien thing. Kill me!" Truman
    • "Never fall in love with another agent, Eddie. You know it's never going to end well." Honey Lake
    • "Oh, good. For a moment I thought we might be in trouble." Roger Morningstar
    • "You won't get me. Anything for the family." Harry Drood
    • "They're holding her in the Timeless Moment." Sir Terrence Ashtree
    • "I have my power, and I have my shields. You can't kill me, and you can't stop me." Alexandre Dusk
    • "You can't hurt me. Nothing in this world can hurt me. I was promised!" Philip MacAlpine
  • The Seems
    • "Is this A Better Place?" Becker Drane, though his actual death is somewhat ambiguous.
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events
    • "Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself." Count Olaf. He is quoting the Philip Larkin poem 'This Be The Verse.'
    • "Kit." Dewey Denoument.
    • "Yes... I mean no! I mean-" Aunt Josephine.
  • Shadows Fall
    • "Goodbye, Sean. Sing a last song for us, if you would." Puck
    • "Let's talk about tradition, scumbag. This is the sword Excalibur, and it remembers you." Madeleine Kresh
    • "You're going to have to stop him, Jimmy. I can't hold him for long." Friend
    • "In the material world, you're bound by material rules. Which means, I'm going to kick your ass. That's what I came back for." Leonard Ash
  • The Shining
    • "Oh, Danny, for God's sake--" Jack Torrance
    • "NOT TOO LATE! I WIN! NOT TOO LATE! NOT TOO LATE! NOT--" The Overlook Hotel
  • A Song of Ice and Fire:
    • "The seed is strong." Jon Arryn
    • "The first sword of Braavos does not run!" Syrio Forel. Most definitely a CMOA.
    • "Mother... Grey Wind..." Robb Stark.
    • "A son for a son." Catelyn Stark
    • "Joffrey Baratheon is the one true heir to the Iron Throne, and by the grace of all the Gods, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm." Eddard Stark
    • "I...I can't..." Joffrey Baratheon.
    • "Cold..." Renly Baratheon.
    • "As if he could. Turn, Snow, and die." Qhorin Halfhand.
    • "Who calls me bastard?!" Craster.
    • "No corn. Tell Jorah. Forgive him. My son. Please. Go." Commander Jeor Mormont.
    • "Oh, you know nothing, Jon Snow." Ygritte.
    • "Ten thousand, as you promised, my lord." Dontos Hollard.
    • "Say the name!!!" Oberyn Martell
    • "More than anything, my giant of Lannister." Shae.
    • "I beg... a... a drink of water, and...another boon. If you would.Maester Luwin.
    • "Only one? Oh, Petyr, do you swear it?" Lysa Arryn
    • "I want him dead, the traitor. I want his head, you'll bring me his head, or you'll burn with all the rest. All the traitors. Rossart says they are inside the walls! He's gone to make them a warm welcome. Whose blood? Whose?" Aerys Targaryen, the Mad King.
    • "Sister, please... Dany, tell them...make them...sweet sister...!" Viserys Targaryen
    • "You are...no son of mine..." Tywinn Lannister.
    • " Aegon? Dead. He's dead." Kevan Lannister
  • The Stand
    • "It's all right, Mr. Henreid. You don't know any better." - Glen Bateman
    • "Oh, shit, we're all fucked!" - Lloyd Henreid
    • "Oh God, thank God! I will fear no evil, I will f..." - Larry Underwood, last thoughts
  • Sten
    • "Tell the boss I remember. I remember very well." Ian Mahoney
    • "I'm following direct Imperial orders, mister. No, Sten, I'll not be the traitor. Mason, clear." Admiral Mason
    • "I will be the forever king. The Eternal Emperor." Eternal Emperor, first death
    • "Stick around, Ian. I'll be right back." Eternal Emperor, penultimate death
    • "In my end, is my beginning. Of course, would there even be another beginning is the question? [...] But, it's a question that'll never be answered, will it?" Eternal Emperor, final death
  • Takeshi Kovacs
    • "That's fucking enough!" Iphigenia Deme
    • "You aren't where you come from. You're on Earth. Try behaving like it." Trepp. She gets better.
    • "Look, I did my fucking best. I--" Jerry
    • "Get up. We're not finished yet." Kadmin
    • "You aren't going to die angry, Kovacs. You're going to die pleading. Over. And over. Again. Have an aperitif." Reileen Kawahara
  • A Tale of Two Cities
    • "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Sydney Carton, though this is only what he would have said if he had been given the opportunity.
  • Tour of the Merrimack
    • "Aw, but this is so cute. It's shootin' at me! YeeeeeeeeHA!" Jaime "Cowboy" Carver
    • "It's a -- oh, crap. Tell the captain we got a -- a thing." Dak Shepard. Later revived by Reset Button
    • "Merrimack's opened fire on Gladiator! EeeeeeeHa!" Jaime "Cowboy" Carver, revived by Reset Button but Too Dumb to Live for long
    • "Short timer? I'm done! I crawled in a fox-trotting Roman sewer for those folf-wuckers! The elegant hag does NOT do the back!" Reg Monroe
    • "Thank you for that. Get Constantine. It Has Been an Honor, sir." Harius Asinius
    • "Have it your way! I'll do anything!" Constantine Siculus
    • "Singing! Can't you tell?" Cole Darby
    • "You couldn't dissemble your way to a surprise birthday party, John Farragut." Augustus
    • "What kind of message does that send?" Helmut Roodoverhemd
    • "You know I have the legal right to kill you without legal process." Poul Vrba
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
    • "Then we proclaim ourselves your peers! You can have anyone you want defend you. Have that girl, if you like. She seems to be your eyes and ears. Let her be your mouth, too." Mr. Cranick
    • "Don't be afraid of her. Look at her. She's nothing but an unnatural girl, a girl trying to act like a man. Trying to be a man. She can only harm you by living. Let her have her punishment. Take her!" Captain Jaggery
  • Tunnels
    • "Get them away, Imago." Tam Macaulay
    • "NO! WAIT! I WANT TO GO HOME!" Cal Jerome
    • "Will?" Roger Burrows
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • "No! It [my mind] is coming home at last, at last, at last... Mother!" Augustine St. Clare.
    • "Who,--who,--who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" Tom
  • Under the Dome
    • "I love you, Little Walter. Mumma loves her boy." Sammy Bushey
    • "You want it in the back? Okay; that's all right with me." Junior Rennie
    • "I love you, Chef" Andy Sanders
    • "Now... Sanders... now!" Phil "Chef" Bushey
    • "No, don't touch me! None of you touch me!" "Big Jim" Rennie
    • "Oh, the sky!" Sam Verdreaux
  • War and Remembrance
    • "The Lord is God. Blessed be His name for ever and ever. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is One God." Aaron Jastrow
  • Warrior Cats:
    • "Traitor!" Tigerstar, right before he is cut down.
    • "There's nothing left...it's all dark-everything's gone..." Darkstripe
    • "Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once... Don't make me save you again." ... "I won't. I'll always be with you, I promise." Feathertail
    • We will meet again, my brother. This is not over yet. Hawkfrost
    • "I know I did the right thing, but no cat will ever understand." Hollyleaf ([[spoiler:{{Though it turns out she's Not Quite Dead.}})
    • "I couldn't bear to... to leave without getting to know my mother." Hollyleaf, this time for real.
    • "You took your time. Always late, that's your trouble." Mousefur
    • "That was never going to happen, my love. I cannot journey with you anymore. I'm sorry." Spottedleaf
    • "I'm going to shred you till there's nothing left to join StarClan." Brokenstar
    • "You're the traitor. And this time I'll kill you." Hawkfrost
    • "When you're dead, I can rule the Clans or kill them." Tigerstar
    • "You lived like a rogue. You can die like a rogue." Firestar, before killing Tigerstar and succumbing to his own wounds.
  1. ↑ Implied, as she mouthed the name before death
  2. ↑ c. "Take the cork out (of your ass)."
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