“I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Jane (Ch. 12)
Jane Eyre (1847)
“I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Introduction, Sec. 4
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 157
“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
Variant: I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Gopinath Kaviraj, Sri Sri Ma Anandamayi: Upadesa O Prasnottara, p. 1
By followers
From his 1971 World Series MVP acceptance speech, recalling the time in 1957 when he considered quitting baseball, as quoted in "Pittsburgh's Clemente Honored" https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19711021&id=66lOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tQkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7211,3919174 by United {Press International, in The Wilmington Star-News (Thursday, October 21, 1971), p. 1-D
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
“And if God does not help me to go on, then I shall have to help God.”
The surface of the earth is gradually turning into one great prison camp, and soon there will be nobody left outside. … I don't fool myself about the real state of affairs, and I've even dropped the pretense that I'm out to help others. I shall merely try to help God as best I can, and if I succeed in doing that, then I shall be of use to others as well. But I mustn't have heroic illusions about that either.
11 July 1942, p. 484-85
Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943