“You sod, Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”
Dannie Abse (1923–2014) Welsh poet and physician
Poem In the theatre, in: Dannie Abse (1997) Welsh retrospective, p. 43
Last words, as reported in The Book of Ancient Bastards: 101 of the Worst Miscreants and Misdeeds from Ancient Sumer to the Enlightenment (2011) by Brian Thornton, p. 134; his mother was also murdered, their bodies beheaded, dragged through Rome, and dumped into the Tiber river. <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">Let my mother be, leave her alone! <br class="br">As quoted in "Elagabalus: Queen of Rome" by Kim Seabrook at Prisoners of Eternity (2013) http://www.prisonersofeternity.co.uk/elagabalus-queen-of-rome/
“You sod, Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”
Dannie Abse (1923–2014) Welsh poet and physician
Poem In the theatre, in: Dannie Abse (1997) Welsh retrospective, p. 43
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
“You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.”
Stirling Silliphant (1918–1996) American screenwriter and film producer
David Zellaby (Martin Stephens), Village of the Damned (speaking to his uncle about himself and the other alien children) (1960).
“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Testimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Boston, Massachusetts (30 January 1978)
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
"O'Reilly Open Source Conference: Day 3" by Paul Weinstein, in Apache Week (26 July 2002) http://www.apacheweek.com/features/oscon2002 <br class="br">2000s