Books·Posted on Oct 22, 201323 Famous Authors' Last WordsAuthors spend their lives expressing life's intricacies. Their last words capture this elegance.by Jeremy BenderBuzzFeed FellowLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Aldous Huxley 2. Voltaire 3. Hunter S. Thompson 4. J.M. Barrie 5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6. Jane Austen 7. Edgar Allan Poe 8. Anton Chekhov 9. Leo Tolstoy 10. Henry David Thoreau 11. James Joyce 12. W.C. Fields 13. Emily Dickinson 14. Washington Irving 15. Lord Byron 16. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 17. Franz Kafka 18. Elizabeth Barret Browning 19. Eugene O'Neill 20. Charlotte Bronte 21. Truman Capote 22. Lewis Carroll 23. O. Henry