Better Dead Than Alive Quotes

#1. She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.

Alan W. Watts

#3. It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead.

Home Run Baker

#4. A dead poet is better than one that's alive

Aaron Ozee

#5. Quotes From The Whipping Boyfriend

Picky alive is better than picky dead in a freezer any day, she told herself.
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Edward Reed

#6. I've been half d-dead for ten years, Gris, but then you walked back into my life, and I came alive again. You make me want to live. You make me want to be a better man.

Katy Regnery

#7. Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial terms, as life-challenged. Or undead. Or the living dead. But I'm not a zombie. I'm just a little less alive than your average high school junior.

Rachel Vincent

#8. The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don't get much for it - it's twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it's because of the middlemen.

Richard J. Roberts

#9. In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference.

Peter H. Fogtdal

#10. I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

Alice Cary

#11. The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Stanley Kubrick

#12. It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

Joe Strummer

#13. Better be alive and wrong than dead and right. He had no choice but to be suspicious.

Tiffany Snow

#14. Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.

Anthony Liccione

#15. Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.

Zoe Marriott

#16. Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.

Richard Armour

#17. Alive is better than dead. Always.

Darren Shan

#18. You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Joe Biden

#19. Better cranky and alive than cheerful and dead.

Seanan McGuire

#20. Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

Louie Giglio

#21. The dead are so long dead," explained Merlin. "Better to have lived while alive, yes? Besides, if they achieve this, they will have conquered a giant; they will be invincible!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#22. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.

Betsy Lerner

#24. For you will be dead much longer than you will be alive. And you will have all that time to remember everything that was your life, even if no one else does. So you had better find something worth remembering and just leave it at that.

Matthew Good

#25. If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie
not really dead but not really alive, either.

Cassandra Clare

#26. It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive .

Antisthenes

#27. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)

Anonymous

#28. We are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

May Sarton

#29. A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

Vance Havner

#30. Isn't it better to die while you're alive than to live the life of a dead person?

Emmanuel Carrere

#31. Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#32. Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else.

L.M. Montgomery