„Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)“

— James Joyce
„For last year's words belong to last year's languageAnd next year's words await another voice.“
— T.S. Eliot
„I'm bored with it all.- Last Words“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.“
— Haruki Murakami
„It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word.“
— Desmond Tutu
„for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.“
— Vladimir Nabokov