I don't really know what else to say at the moment other than quoted final words that move me and that I understand more deeply now. As I read through them again I realise that each of them amazes me because the person dying was still focussed so completely on life and the people around them, not considering their own sorrow. They died courageously, living up until the last moments thinking of those they were leaving behind.
Louis XIV on his deathbed to his attendants who were crying:
"Why are you weeping? Did you imagine that I was immortal?"
Marco Polo:
"I have not told half of what I saw."
Nathan Hale (before being executed):
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Bishop Hugh Latimer (said before being put to death):
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out.
Kaiser Willhelm I (said during his last illness):
"I haven't got time to be tired"
Jesus Christ, on the cross:
"It is finished."
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