Departing Words by Famous Author

By Khushboo Singh

"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves." 

George Orwell

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

F. Scott Fitzgerald 

"I want nothing but death."

Jane Austen

"I am dying , I shall die easy; don't be frightened , be firm, and thank God it has come.” 

John Keats

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us must go.” 

Oscar Wilde

“I want you to promise me that, if i die, you will put no paragraph in your paper about me which contains the word 'genius'.” 

Thomas Hardy

"Dying is easy, comedy is hard."

George Bernard Shaw 

"Go away, I'm all right!"

H.G. Well

"You know,  I am not frightened. It's just that I will miss you so much!" (His actual last words were "Ow, f*ck.")

Roald Dahl

"'Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy."

Charlotte Brontë

“I must go in; the fog is rising.” 

Emily Dickinson

“I am going to the inevitable.” 

Philip Larkin