Top 100 Better To Die Quotes
#1. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison
#2. No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]
Christopher Paolini
#3. It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;
Matthew Henry
#4. Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
Darren Shan
#5. For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
Aeschylus
#6. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain
#7. Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.
Erika Johansen
#8. Isn't it better to die while you're alive than to live the life of a dead person?
Emmanuel Carrere
#9. Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
John Charles Polanyi
#10. I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.
Lionel Shriver
#11. It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!
Emiliano Zapata
#12. Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
Haile Selassie
#13. They've flipped the natural order on us, boy. Better to die than live. Better to give up than fight. Better to hide than face. They know the way to break us is to kill us first here.
Rick Yancey
#14. It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
Terry Brooks
#16. Then when I am sad and understand nothing anymore, I say to myself that it's better to die while you still want to live, than to die and want to die.
Erich Maria Remarque
#17. The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.
Jerry Stahl
#18. It is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie. Let it cost me what it will, I will not depart from the truth, even to save my own or my father's life. I will obey God, and trust Him for the rest.
Christoph Von Schmid
#19. You know i was just thinking that it's better to die trying [to live your bravest dream] than to live sleeping.
Robin Sharma
#20. It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
Michael Crichton
#22. It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#23. It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.
Livia Blackburne
#24. Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails
Darren Shan
#25. And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. When a spy is captured, he takes a suicide pill, believing it's better to die than be tortured. By that reasoning shouldn't those same pills be issued to anyone foolish enough to fall in love? - The Lighter Side of Death
Kyra Davis
#27. It is better to die in hope than live in despair.
Yuna
#28. If you have to die [ ... ] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing.
Elizabeth Bear
#29. It is always better to die like a hero than live like a coward.
Folami Morris
#31. It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will.
Juliet Marillier
#32. Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames.
Billy Bishop
#33. It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us.
Beth Revis
#34. Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
Che Guevara
#36. Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.
Ben Aaronovitch
#39. It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.
Epictetus
#40. It is better to die on your feet than be called for offensive pass interference.
Euripides
#41. It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
Epictetus
#42. You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn't. You say it's better to die on your feet. I say it's better to live on our knees.
Pierce Brown
#43. It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.
Martin Luther
#44. But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
Paulo Coelho
#45. Don't say that. It's not better to die. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there from the grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong.
Betty Smith
#46. It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Chanakya
#47. We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore and do nothing while others perish?
Julie Klassen
#49. Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
Sophocles
#50. It's better to die by a Demon's touch than to survive an Angel's backstab-Poem by Christos C. Kallis
Christos Kallis
#51. I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.
Whittaker Chambers
#53. When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
Swami Vivekananda
#55. better to die on their feet than to live on their knees.
Clara Frost
#56. It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.
Aporva Kala
#57. It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
Epictetus
#58. It's better to die free than live life in a cage.
Jordan Dane
#59. Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
Al Sharpton
#60. Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?
Barbara Hillary
#61. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Aeschylus
#62. Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.
Peter Menzel
#63. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
#64. It is better to die, than dive heart-first, into a pool of love, only knee-high deep.
Anthony Liccione
#65. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob Marley
#66. When your blood decides the fate of kings, better to die a lion than a lamb.
Elisabetta L. Faenza
#67. It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
#68. It's better to die pursuing your dreams and destiny, than to live a life in fear of failure.
Jeanette Coron
#69. If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.
Muhammad Iqbal
#70. It is better to die well than to live badly.
Jan Hus
#71. She refused to die like an animal locked in a cage. Like a girl with nothing to save her name. Better to die by the sword. Better to die at the mercy of the nightbeasts. To die in the night air. Free.
Renee Ahdieh
#72. It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die
Steve Biko
#73. Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored ... Better to die than to live in slavery.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#74. Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.
Aesop
#75. It's better to die chasing a dream never caught than to die never having chased the dream.
Joyce Fields
#76. Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.
George R R Martin
#77. Better to die with my chin held high than groveling like a cowering worm.
Sarah J. Maas
#78. One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
George Orwell
#80. It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
Brigham Young
#81. Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!
Swami Vivekananda
#82. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.
Michelle Erickson
#83. You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Anthony Bourdain
#84. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.
Steven Aitchison
#85. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?
Jodi Picoult
#86. To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.
Donald Miller
#87. Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.
Diane Frolov
#88. I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
Oliver Stone
#89. You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
A.E. Housman
#90. He was beginning to wonder whether June's facility, and their shared interest, might serve them better in the long run than a passionate sexual relationship that would eventually die on them.
Nick Hornby
#91. Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.
Don Meyer
#92. Miss Treason! Remember you have an appointment!"
It wasn't the best thing to say, but a lot better than: "You said you were going to die in about five minutes' time!
Terry Pratchett
#93. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.
Ronald C. White Jr.
#94. All men die, Kendras. Better get used to it. And then fight until the end, with every breath, every heartbeat, every single, last thought.
Aleksandr Voinov
#95. Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#96. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.
Cormac McCarthy
#97. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Thomas Huxley
#98. We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.
L.J.Smith
#99. It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
Ben Affleck
#100. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.
Mitch Albom
