Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 988 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860–1937) |
| QUOTATION: | To die will be an awfully big adventure. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | This line was quoted by Barrie’s friend, American impresario Charles Frohman, as he plunged to his death on the Lusitania.—The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931–1940, p. 49. |
| SUBJECTS: | Last words |