“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
" Death (A Play) http://books.google.com/books?id=qjRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It's+not+that+I'm+afraid+to+die+I+just+don't+want+to+be+there+when+it+happens%22&pg=PA99#v=onepage". <br class="br">Without Feathers (1975)
“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Variant: I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games
Bill O'Reilly (1949) American political commentator, television host and writer
2006-02-09
Using a Funeral to Make Political Points
The O'Reilly Factor
Fox News
Television
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184331,00.html
In response to civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's funeral.
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) German actor
Source: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 42
“I don't know what happens when I die, and I don't care.”
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
Interview with The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/bill-maher-on-masturbation-and-national-security/283266/ (24 January 2014)
“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”
Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer
Source: Go Ask Alice
Ashraf Pahlavi (1919–2016) Iranian royal
In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)
“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”
Variant: I don't want to die without any scars.
Source: Fight Club
“Please — please don't kill me — I don't want to die. I just want to have my baby.”
Sharon Tate (1943–1969) actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers
Court testimony of Virginia Graham as to what her confessed murderer Susan Atkins (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) had said were among her last words (9 August 1969). Atkins said she responded to this with: "Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now, you're going to die, and I don't feel a thing behind it."