History FamousLastWords / Theater

* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}''
** "I saw the lights, and I was on my way." [[spoiler:Evita, on her deathbed]]

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables''
** "And tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake." [[spoiler:Fantine]]
** "[[KilledMidSentence And rain will make the flowers....]]" [[spoiler:Eponine]]
** "[[KilledMidSentence So you'd better run for cover when the pup grows...]]" [[spoiler:Gavroche]]
** "Let others rise to take our place until the Earth is FREE!" [[spoiler:Enjolras]]
** "There is nowhere I can turn; there is nowhere to go OOOOOONNNN!" [[spoiler:Javert]]
** "To love another person is to see the face of God," OR "Forgive me of my trespasses and take me to your glory," depending on the production and staging [[spoiler:Jean Valjean]]

* ''Theatre/TheFlyingDutchman:

* ''Theatre/TheYeomanOfTheGuard'':

** "[[spoiler:I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene. Oh don't you see, finally I'll be, somewhere that's green..]]." [[spoiler:Audrey]]

** "[[spoiler:And she was beautiful. And she was virtuous. And he was...naïve.]]" [[spoiler:Sweeney Todd]]

** "''Auf wiedersehen''... ''A bientot''... Good night." [[spoiler:The Emcee, in the stagings that imply he was taken to the camps]]

** "To love another person is to see the face of God," OR "Forgive me of my trespasses and take me to your glory," depending on the production and staging.[[spoiler:Jean Valjean]]

* ''Evita''

* ''IntoTheWoods''

* ''{{Cabaret}}''

** "''Ce soir, quand j'entrerai chez Dieu, Mon salut balaiera largement le seuil bleu, Quelque chose que sans un pli, sans une tache, J'emporte malgré vous, et c'est...mon panache''" ("To-night, when I shall enter unto God, my salute will grandly sweep the threshold of blue; one thing shall I take with me, without blemish, without stain, despite you all, and that is... my ''panache''").

* ''JesusChristSuperStar''

* From ''Theatre/TheYeomanOfTheGuard'': "...Who sipped no sup/And who craved no crumb/As he sighed for the love of a lady." [[spoiler:Jack Point]]

* ''CyranoDeBergerac''

* ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''

* ''[[GilbertAndSullivan The Sorcerer]]'':

** And from ''The Yeoman of the Guard'': "...Who sipped no sup/And who craved no crumb/As he sighed for the love of a lady." [[spoiler:Jack Point]]

** "To love another person is to see the face of God." [[spoiler:Jean Valjean]]

* ''TheDuchessOfMalfi''

** "Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to your glory." [[spoiler:Jean Valjean]]

** "Seymour!" [[spoiler:Mushnik]]

** "Open up! Open up! Open up! NOW!" [[spoiler:Seymour]]

* ''LesMiserables''

* ''LittleShopOfHorrors''

* ''SundayInTheParkWithGeorge''

* {{Shakespeare}}'s characters had plenty of these. If you're the title character in a tragedy, you're getting one:
* ''JuliusCaesar'':
** "[[EtTuBrute Et tu, Brute]]? Then fall, Caesar." [[spoiler:Julius Caesar]]
** "Caesar, thou art revenged, even with the sword that kill'd thee." [[spoiler:Cassius]]
** "Caesar, now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will." [[spoiler:Brutus]]
* ''{{Hamlet}}'':
** "[[CaptainObvious O, I am slain!]]" [[spoiler:Polonius]]
** "God ha' mercy on his soul! And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye." [[spoiler:[[TheOphelia Ophelia]]'s final line before she exits and drowns offstage.]]
** "[[CaptainObvious The drink, the drink! I am poison'd!]]" [[spoiler:Gertrude]]
** "O, yet defend me friends; I am but hurt." [[spoiler:Claudius]]
** "Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me." [[spoiler:Laertes]]
** "The rest is silence." [[spoiler:Hamlet]]
* ''RomeoAndJuliet''
** "[[APlagueOnBothYourHouses A plague o' both your houses!]] They have made worm's meat of me. I have it, and soundly too. -- Your houses!" [[spoiler:Mercutio]]
** "Thou wretched boy, that didst consort [Mercutio] here, shalt with him hence!" [[spoiler:Tybalt]]
** "Thus with a kiss I die." [[spoiler:Romeo]]
** "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." [[spoiler:Juliet]]
* ''{{Macbeth}}'':
** "Murder!" [[spoiler:Lady Macduff]]
** "What's done cannot be undone. -- To bed, to bed, to bed!" [[spoiler:Lady Macbeth (though she dies in a later scene, this is her last line in the play.)]]
** "Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'" [[spoiler:Macbeth]]
* ''KingLear'':
** "Do you see this? Look on her! Look, her lips! Look there, look there!" [[spoiler:King Lear]]
* ''RichardIII'':
** "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" [[spoiler:Richard III]]
* ''{{Othello}}'':
** "Farewell, commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!" [[spoiler:Desdemona]]
** "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word." [[spoiler:Iago (presumably)]]
** "I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss." [[spoiler:Othello]]
* ''{{Coriolanus}}''
** "If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, that, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. Boy!" Unfortunately for Coriolanus those weren't his last words, as this final fit of rage causes him to carry on before finally being suddenly and unceremoniously cut down by assassins in front of his murderous rival Aufidius (no [[{{TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou}} dramatic final confrontation]] for ''you''!). His actual last words are "O that I had him, with six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe, to use my lawful sword!", which are a bit rubbish considering he has a mouth to rival the [[Series/DoctorWho Tenth Doctor's]]. This was no doubt intentional.
* Edmond Rostand's ''CyranoDeBergerac'':

* From ''[[GilbertAndSullivan The Sorcerer]]'':
** "Be happy all/Leave me in my despair/I go/It matters not with who/Or where." [[spoiler:John Wellington Wells]]
** And from ''The Yeoman of the Guard'': "...Who sipped no sup/And who craved no crumb/As he sighed for the love of a lady." [[spoiler:Jack Point]]
* From ''Les Miserables''
** "And tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake." [[spoiler:Fantine]]
** "[[KilledMidSentence And rain will make the flowers....]]" [[spoiler:Eponine]]
** "Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to your glory." [[spoiler:Jean Valjean]]
* From JesusChristSuperStar
** "You have murdered me, murdered me, murdered me...." [[spoiler:Judas]]
** "Father! Into your hands I commend my spirit!" [[spoiler:Jesus, but you should know this.]]
* From ''Evita''

* From IntoTheWoods

* From ALittleNightMusic

* From SundayInTheParkWithGeorge
** "Goodbye, Mama." [[spoiler:Marie]]
* From RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead
** "All right, then. I don't care. I've had enough. To tell you the truth, I'm relieved." [[spoiler:Rosencrantz]]
** "Now you see me, now you--" [[spoiler:Guildenstern]]
* From LittleShopOfHorrors:

** "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this moment forward I never will speak word." [[spoiler:Iago (presumably)]]

** "Open up! Open up! Open up! NOW!" [[spoiler:Seymour]]