I Would Rather Die Trying Quotes

#1. I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too
So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

David Levithan

#2. You're a con artist. A liar. A thief. An unredeemable soul. You can't be reformed. You can't be saved. You'll die trying to make the world pay for what it did to you. And you'll die alone.

Karina Halle

#3. And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.

Lauren DeStefano

#4. We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

Stephen King

#5. He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

Laini Taylor

#6. 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

#7. Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot.

Nick Trout

#8. It'll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to." "So no pressure, Harry," said Fred, winking at him.

J.K. Rowling

#9. To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find 'em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says "Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you. And I didn't even know it.

Belle Aurora

#11. Okay, don't just die, then. Die trying.

Rick Yancey

#12. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.

Alec Sulkin

#13. You have every right to hate me for this lifetime and many others. You have every right to never see me again. To spit on my grave. But tonight, now, I'm not going to give up on you or," his voice fell with weight, "die trying.

Karina Halle

#14. You gotta help me get out of here! They're trying to kill me. I'm gonna die. I've got $35,000 missing. Those two women took it. They're trying to kill me. You gotta help me. Cut me loose! Cut me loose!

Jeannie Walker

#15. Why not stop trying to prevent posterity being silent about you? You were born to die, and a silent funeral is less bothersome.

Seneca.

#16. Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

Joe Jonas

#17. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!

Melina Marchetta

#18. I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

Emily Dickinson

#19. They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Tom DeLonge

#20. I was trying to take the easy way out by running away from everything. No matter the pain, I will keep living. So when I die, I'll feel I did the best I could.

Koala

#21. I had no clue what I was going to do with a male, or how to do it, but I knew I was going to do it right goddamn now or die trying.

Eli Easton

#22. If someone accidentally ingests sodium azide, you shouldn't try to resuscitate the person because you could die, too, giving CPR. This is a highly toxic chemical.

William Davis

#23. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Curtis Jackson

#24. 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

#25. Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?

Amanda Seyfried

#26. You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.

Robert Jordan

#27. I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.

Beth Revis

#29. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.

Scott Lynch

#30. For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.

Gloria Furman

#31. Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Thomas Paine

#32. This is all your fault," George said angrily to Wood. "'Get the Snitch or die trying,' what a stupid thing to tell him -

J.K. Rowling

#33. Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

#34. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.

Steven Aitchison