Showing posts with label Unfamous last words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unfamous last words. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Unfamous last words - 4

Charge the windowsill.
- Col. (Ret.) Dorrigo Evans, quixotic (and fictional) Australian survivor of the Burma railway, in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Monday, 9 June 2014

Unfamous last words - 3

... moose ... Indian ...
- Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Unfamous Last Words - 2

I liked things better the way they were before.
- Melekh Gaystick, suicidal (fictional) chess champion, in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Unfamous last words

We shall feel better in the morning.
- Emile Zola, to his wife, as they were being slowly gassed by a malfunctioning bedroom fireplace.