15 Famous Writers And Their Last Words
By Nancy Yan
1. “I must go in, for the fog is rising.” – Emily Dickinson
2. “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.” – Oscar Wilde
3. “Is it not meningitis?” – Louisa M. Alcott
4. “Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.” – Lord George Byron
5. “Turn up the lights, I don’t want to go home in the dark.” – O. Henry (William Sidney Porter
6. “It’s all been very interesting.” – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
7. “I see black light.” – Victor Hugo
8. “Lord help my poor soul.” – Edgar Allan Poe
9. “Moose… Indian…” – Henry David Thoreau
10. “LSD, 100 micrograms I.M.” – Aldous Huxley
11. “I can’t sleep.” – J.M. Barrie
12. “I want nothing but death.” – Jane Austen
13. “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room.” – Eugene O’Neill
14. “Take away those pillows. I shall need them no more.” – Lewis Caroll
15. “So this is death—well—“ – Thomas Carlyle