Stephen Court in The Creature from Beyond Infinity (1940)
Short fiction
In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)
“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
“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”
Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast
“I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Context: Glorious is the risk! — καλος γαρ ο κινδυνος, glorious is the risk that we are able to run of our souls never dying … Faced with this risk, I am presented with arguments designed to eliminate it, arguments demonstrating the absurdity of the belief in the immortality of the soul; but these arguments fail to make any impression on me, for they are reasons and nothing more than reasons, and it is not with reasons that the heart is appeased. I do not want to die — no; I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. I want this "I" to live — this poor "I" that I am and that I feel myself to be here and now, and therefore the problem of the duration of my soul, of my own soul, tortures me.
“I plan on not dying, but if I have to, I want to die in Liverpool.”
Spin magazine (2008)
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
“When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.”
Cuando yo muera, no me veré morir, por primera vez.
Voces (1943)
