Rodrigo Borgia’s (Pope Alexander VI) last words have always been unsettling to me:
“I am coming; I am coming. It is just [“just” meaning “appropriate”]. But wait a little.”
When looking back on his life, one has to wonder if he was speaking to angels or devils.
John Wilkes Booth, looking at his hands: “Useless, useless.”
Pete Holmes’ “Not today!” scenario gets my vote:
http://www.comedycentral.com/jokes/6s26qf/stand-up-pete-holmes--pete-holmes--funniest-way-to-die
Joan Crawford on seeing her maid praying: “Damn it, don’t you dare ask God to help me.”
Anton Chekhov, after one last drink: “I haven’t had champagne in a long time.” Preceded by “Ich sterbe!” (“I’m dying!” in German.)
“Oh my!”
Kirk*, if you discount his own Trek novel.
*Fat Shatner version
“Avada Keda–”
Actually, the first thing I thought when I saw the thread was Roy Batty’s final words. Apart from that all I can come up with is my mother in law’s last as she was dying in hospice: “Fuck.” gasp/choke/gurgle Can’t beat that.
I am going to the inevitable. - Philip Larkin.
“No matter what they say I done…
I ain’t never had too much fun”.
I think it was O. Henry who said, “I’m afraid to go home in the dark.”
