“Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.”
Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
Variant: I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
“It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time.”
— Michael Shaara, book The Killer Angels
Captain Goree, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.355
The Killer Angels (1974)
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As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Luke Garroway, Clary Fray, and Jocelyn Fray, pg. 221-222
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: Clary looked down at herself. She was wearing a pair of flannel pajamas, too short in the leg and tight in the chest, with fire trucks on them.
Luke raised an eyebrow. 'I think those were mine when I was a kid.'
'You can't seriously tell me there wasn't anything else you could have put me in.'
'If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover,' Jocelyn said with a tiny smirk.
'The pajamas of vengeance,' Clary muttered.
“A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.”
Dave Barry book Peter and the Starcatchers
Source: Peter and the Starcatchers
“Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.”
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
How to kill yourself like a man. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide <br class="br">The Best Page in the Universe
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Variant: How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
"With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest...
Source: The Final Empire
““I have come to kill you.”
The death’s heads shrugged. “You have come to try.””
Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 39 (p. 555).