“Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping…”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Source: Night Pleasures
“Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping…”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
“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."
Nick Drake (1948–1974) British singer-songwriter
Time Has Told Me
Song lyrics, Five Leaves Left (1969)
Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923) Dutch painter
translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
(original version, written by Jacoba in German:)Ich arbeite sehr viel und denke sehr viel. Ich möchte so gern versuchen, auf Glas zu mahlen. .. ..bitte fragen sie ihn dann [Herr Taut] ob es transparante Farbe gibt, womit man gleich auf Glas malen kann. .. ..ich möchte eine neue Technik haben, dass der Künstler so direkt das Glas verwenden kann statt Leinwand. Wenn man die Farben leuchtend geistlich haben will, dann wird es eine Zeit kommen, dass Oelfarben und Leinwand sich dafür nicht mehr eignen.. ..So wenn Sie Zeit haben, fragen Sie dann Herrn Taut ob er meine Idee versteht und vielieich den Weg kennt, den ik gehen müsse.
in a letter to Herwarth Walden, 11 Nov. 1914; as cited by Arend H. Huussen Jr. in Jacoba van Heemskerck, kunstenares van het Expressionisme, Haags Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 1982, p. 19
It was not until April 1918 that Jacoba wrote Walden she had decided to submit a series of designs for stained glass windows for the upcoming 'Sturm' exhibition - in April 1919 she sent him ten stained-glass windows, 'Nrs. 12-26'
1910's
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Context: Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
Her last taped interview, with Richard Meryman, published in LIFE magazine a few days before her death. (3 August 1962); quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) <!-- p. 42 -->
Lana Del Rey (1985) American singer-songwriter
"PM's favourite singer Lana Del Rey ignores the abuse", Evening Standard (24 January 2012), p. 13
“I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.”
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
Last words (mouthed). http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/07/heart-attack-killed-suffering-hugo-chavez-head-venezuela-presidential-guard/ <br class="br">2013
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter VII
“I vowed I would bring you solace in time of need. Please don't make me break my vows.”
E. L. James book Fifty Shades Freed
Anastasia Steele, Chapter 4, p. 75.
Fifty Shades Freed (2011)