“Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.”
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.”
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games
1961
Source: Conversation with Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda (1961) as recounted by Richard Reeves in his book President Kennedy: Profile of Power (1994)
"I don't fear death" http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/15/popandrock1, The Guardian.com, March 15, 2004.
General Quotes
International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961–1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm,
“I have a headache"
"You can't get headaches"
"So you're fond of telling me.”
Lightsong the Bold and Llarimar
Warbreaker (2009)
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde)
Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008.
Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed.
Disputed
“I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.”