Better Off Dead Quotes

#1. We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.

Holly Black

#2. If a man must make excuses for himself, continually argue with himself that he is a man, then he is better off dead.

Elmore Leonard

#3. When we see celebrities who fall victim to depression's lies we think to ourselves, "How in the world could they have killed themselves? They had everything." But they didn't. They didn't have a cure for an illness that convinced them they were better off dead.

Jenny Lawson

#4. Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh? (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)

Christopher Paolini

#5. 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

#6. Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

Passenger

#7. We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.

Michael Moorcock

#8. Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.

Gene Vincent

#9. Ugh! Why couldn't anyone ever trust her? She wasn't a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.' (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.

Shaun Hutchinson

#11. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Ray Bradbury

#12. If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead.

Dean Koontz

#13. If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they're better off dead.

Susan Spann

#14. Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

J. Budziszewski

#15. If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.

Bernard Cornwell

#16. Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Carol Ann Duffy

#17. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.

Simona Panova

#18. There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead. I don't feel like a satan but I guess I am ... keep on rockin' the free world.

Neil Young

#19. Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Curtis Armstrong

#20. They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

Doris Lessing

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Better a live coward than a dead hero, I've always believed. Sure people will still sing about dead heroes from time to time, but aside from that they get little attention. Unless they manage to get a holiday named after them. Even then, it's not like they get to enjoy the day off.

Bill Allen

#24. Wes didn't think Tony was a hypocrite exactly
he knew why his brother felt obliged to warn him off. But it was clear that Tony didn't have any better ideas or he would've made those moves himself.

Wes Moore

#25. Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, ' ... for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction.

H.R. Wakefield

#26. The dead know nothing, but they are better off than fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!

Colin Mochrie

#28. An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him ... He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

Solon

#29. I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think they were probably thinking they'd probably better give it to me now before I've popped off.

Doris Lessing

#30. Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

Robert Winston

#31. We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...

Brad Paisley

#32. But hey, what's life without a little adversity?
That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

Alexandra Bracken

#33. Other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard.

John Boyne

#34. Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.

Eva Sloan

#35. To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Og Mandino

#36. There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins.

Belinda G. Buchanan