I hadn’t heard any of these before, apart from Kafka’s. Chekhov’s made me smile. I found Virginia Woolf’s last words quite touching.
Any other famous last words (not necessarily from the world of literature)? George V’s ‘Bugger Bognor’ or Bogart’s ‘I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis’ spring to mind.
“I’ve had 18 straight whiskies . . . I think that’s the record.”
"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers".
~~~ Walter De La Mare
"I must go in, the fog is rising."
~~~ Emily Dickinson
"Go away. I'm all right."
~~~ H. G. Wells