Posted on 03/29/2021 8:55:34 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Steve Jobs, the driving force behind Apple, uttered this about 3 hours before his death as reported by his sister Mona Simpson: “OH WOW, OH WOW, OH WOW.” Was he in pain? Did he reflect on his life? Did he see a vision? We’ll never know.
President George Washington: “Doctor, I am dying, but I am not afraid to die.” He folded his hands over his chest and said: “It is well,” (As related by his wife Martha).
Clarence Darrow, the Scopes Trial lawyer in the famous 1925 debate, while on his deathbed asked several clergymen to “please intercede for me with the Almighty. During my life I have spoken many times against Christians, and I now realize that I may have been wrong.”
Martin Luther: “Father into Thy hands I commend myself.” Feb 17th 1546.
Edward Gibbon, author of the ‘Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire’: “All is lost, irrecoverably lost. All is dark and doubtful.”
John Wesley, preacher and songwriter: “The best of all is that God is with us, farewell, farewell.”
Marilyn Monroe: “I don’t need your Jesus.” Related by Billy Graham who tried to present the Gospel message to Marilyn, just before she died at age 36.
Michelangelo, famous painter and sculptor: “I die in the faith of Jesus Christ, and in the firm hope of a better life.”
Thomas Andrews who designed the Titanic and drowned when it sank April 14th 1912: “No, not even God could sink the Titanic.”
David Brainerd, (well known missionary): “I am going into eternity and it is sweet to me to think of eternity.”
Talleyrand (called the most brilliant mind of his generation) when asked about his condition while on his deathbed replied: “I am suffering the pangs of the damned.”
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“Oh God, if there is a God, save my soul, if I have a soul” - Joseph Ernest Renan.
Interesting
I found the quote of Clarence Darrow especially so......
......I visited that small, infamous courtroom......
The guy was good at innovation, not philosophy.
The American sheeple: “It can’t happen here!”
I’m trying to figure out what the ‘edge of eternity’ means...
Aaaaaaaaaa sh!t...
Isn’t “Oh sh!t!” the most common last phrase of crashing airline pilots?
“Hold my beer”?
100% either Oo or Ah
Some very interesting information is contained in this link.
An enjoyable read for Judeo-Christians and atheists alike.
“Where did all those frigging indians come from?”
-George Armstrong Custer.
It’s also what a secretary says when she drops a big pile of perfectly alphabetized papers on the floor, while trying to answer the phone with a non-existent third hand...
All sorts of disasters occur in the world. The measure of them depends upon individual perception.
(The secretary didn’t know anything about the plane crash...)
Yes it is.
CC
LOL!
We should have a separate category for Darwin Award Winners last words
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