“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.”
Spoken jokingly shortly before his death, the impoverished poet and playwright died of meningitis in Paris.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
Category: Writers
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
“I want nothing but death.”
The famous novelist’s final words spoken to her sister Cassandra, welcoming death as she was in agonising pain from Addison’s disease.