“Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) American politician
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) American politician
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
“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
“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”
Chinua Achebe book Anthills of the Savannah
Source: Anthills of the Savannah
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961
Source: Conversation with Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda (1961) as recounted by Richard Reeves in his book President Kennedy: Profile of Power (1994)
Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter
"I don't fear death" http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/15/popandrock1, The Guardian.com, March 15, 2004. <br class="br">General Quotes
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961–1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm,
“I have a headache"
"You can't get headaches"
"So you're fond of telling me.”
Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker
Lightsong the Bold and Llarimar
Warbreaker (2009)
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde) <br class="br">Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008. <br class="br">Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed. <br class="br">Disputed
“I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist