1701–1709
"I wish I could enjoy / the rest of Spring / as the cherry blossoms are yet in bloom / in spite of the spring breeze / which is attempting to blow off all their petals." () — Asano Naganori, daimyō of the Akō Domain in Japan (21 April 1701); death poem for his seppuku
"Grateful — in peace!" — James II of England (16 September 1701), in reply to Louis XIV telling him that he would acknowledge James' son, James Francis Edward Stuart, as King of England, Scotland and Ireland
"Can this last long?" — William III of England (8 March 1702), dying of pneumonia after breaking his collarbone, to his physician
"I am about to—or I am going to—die; either expression is correct." () — Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian (27 May 1702)
"With all my heart: I would fain be reconciled to my stomach, which no longer performs its usual functions." — Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier, author and hedonist (29 September 1703), when a clergyman asked if he would be reconciled
"Thy will be done." () — Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (12 April 1704)
"...in perfect charity with all men and in sincere communion with the whole church of Christ, by whatever name Christ's followers call themselves." — John Locke, English philosopher and physician (28 October 1704)
"Let me die to the sound of sweet music." — Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (5 May 1705)
"It is all the same in the end." — Titus Oates, English priest and perjurer, fabricator of the "Popish Plot" (12/13 July 1705)
"Wherever I look I see nothing but the Divinity.—I have committed numerous crimes and I know not with what punishments I may be seized.—The agonies of death come upon me fast.—I am going. Whatever good or evil I have done, it was for you. No one has seen the departure of his own soul; but I know that mine is departing." — Aurangzeb, seventh Mughal emperor (3 March 1707), in a letter to his youngest son, Muhammad Kam Bakhsh
"Dear Bob, I have nothing to leave thee to perpetuate my memory but two helpless girls. Look upon them sometimes, and think of him who was to the last moment of his life thine, George Farquhar." — George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (29 April 1707), to his friend Robert Wilks
"I wish to die sitting, in tribute to the most worshipful will of my good and precious Jesus." — Marcello d'Aste, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (11 June 1709)
1710–1719
"Do you wish to hasten my last hour?" — Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (13 March 1711), to a playwright who asked him to read his new play
"God's will be done." — Thomas Ken, English bishop (19 March 1711)
"Pray, pray!" — Thomas Halyburton, Scottish divine (23 September 1712)
"If you have baked me so you also should eat me!" — Juraj Jánošík, Slovak highwayman known as "the Slovak Robin Hood" (17 March 1713), refusing to name fellow robbers prior to jumping onto hook on which he was to be hung
"A life spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that any one can live in this present world." — Matthew Henry, British Nonconformist minister and author (22 June 1714)
"Use it for the good of my people." — Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1 August 1714), handing the Lord High Treasurer's staff of office to Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
"Not my will, but thine be done." — François Fénelon, French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian and writer (7 January 1715), quoting Jesus
"I'm going, but the State will always remain." () — Louis XIV, king of France (1 September 1715)
"Promise me you will never again marry an old man." — William Wycherley, English dramatist (1 January 1716), to his wife. He had married a much younger woman less than twelve days before his death.
"Had I known—" () — Osei Kofi Tutu I, one of the founders of the Ashanti Empire (), shot to death during war against the Akyem
"To be like Christ is to be a Christian." — William Penn, English writer and religious thinker, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (30 July 1718)
"I am coming down now." () — Charles XII, King of Sweden (30 November 1718) when stepping down from his perch into an entrenchment just as he was shot in the head
"See in what peace a Christian can die." — Joseph Addison, English writer and politician (17 June 1719), to his stepson, Edward Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick
"God be thanked, I have had a very good night." — George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (27 September 1719)
1720–1729
"Be fruitful." — Increase Mather, New England Puritan clergyman, president of Harvard College (23 August 1723)