“If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now."”
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
That's my favorite joke.
A Man Without a Country (2005)
As quoted in "Vonnegut's Blues For America" Sunday Herald (7 January 2006)
Various interviews
“If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now."”
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
That's my favorite joke.
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
32 Dionysius
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) Continental and later British Army general during the American Revolutionary War
Unverified, but reportedly said by Arnold on his deathbed in 1801, requesting to wear the uniform of the Colonial Army from before his defection to the British, as quoted in The Picturesque Hudson http://www.kellscraft.com/PicturesqueHudson/PicturesqueHudson08.html (1915) by Clifton Johnson
“Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
The End (1946)
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: 1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844), p. 32
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901) American politician, 23rd President of the United States (in office from 1889 to 1893)
As quoted in "The Status of Annexed Territory and of its Free Civilized Inhabitants" (1901), North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792) English judge
Mayor, &c. of Colchester v. Seaber (1765), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1871.