Top 100 I Would Rather Love Quotes
#1. I would rather love you and live a miserable life than live a wonderful life without your love.
Debasish Mridha
#2. I would rather love and have my heart broken than never have had the feeling of love at all. Without love, what would you live for?
Alyssa Hervis
#3. I don't mind. I would rather love your broken pieces than the whole pieces of anyone else.
B.L. Berry
#4. I would rather love with all my heart and soul and mind for one hour than to suffer all my life with the lack.
Barbara Samuel
#5. So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.
Gabrielle Zevin
#6. I would rather be without money than to be without the book I love to read.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. Keep only those books that will make you happy just to see them on your shelves, the ones that you really love. That includes this book, too. If you don't feel any joy when you hold it in your hand, I would rather you discard it.
Marie Kondo
#8. I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
Andrea Gibson
#9. I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.
Adam Young Owl
#10. Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.
Ashley Greene
#11. Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.
Lang Leav
#12. If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Belle Boyd
#13. I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.
Nigel Godrich
#14. But while the surface has the sun, I would much rather be down here with you.
Aimee Carter
#15. And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#16. As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
Daniel Radcliffe
#17. Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found
that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
Ram Dass
#18. I would rather make love than war, but only because condoms kill millions of lives more enjoyably.
Jarod Kintz
#19. I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is." I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.
Lil' Wayne
#20. I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
George Burns
#21. I would rather have someone say they hate me and mean it, than have someone say they love me and not.
Jeffrey Fry
#22. The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.
E'yen A. Gardner
#23. I realized I would rather have a single night with you, even if it meant I was doomed to be bound to you, aching for you forever than not know such love.
Karen Marie Moning
#24. I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#25. During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a break. Why would I want to get away from it? I love the game. I always have. There's nothing else I'd rather do.
Darin Erstad
#26. Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap.
Steve Maraboli
#27. I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.
Virginia Hey
#28. For me, I would rather have a small gift given with great love.
Joyce Vissell
#29. I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.
Jamaica Kincaid
#30. I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
Bryan Singer
#31. but it would be nice to say It's raining only on my head rather than I have a chemical imbalance in my brain or I just remembered that someone I love will die before I do.
Neil Hilborn
#32. I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup.
Zach Braff
#33. For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. "I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for who I'm not.
Tanya Kaley
#34. I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it's rather difficult to say which car or what car I ride. I love cars.
Akio Toyoda
#35. Becky, if I had to wait five years, then I would. Or eight
or even ten." He pauses, and there's complete silence except for a tiny gust of wind, blowing confetti about the churchyard. "But I hope that one day
preferably rather sooner than that
you'll do me the honor of marrying me?
Sophie Kinsella
#36. I would rather die then try to live without you", "May you always love me and want me but never have me", "May you never love anyone but me".
Jude Deveraux
#37. I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.
Les Brown
#38. I let you drag me here because there isn't a place in the world I would rather be than wherever you go.
F.E. Feeley Jr.
#39. I should've died with my parents ... than live in this world," I say, my voice is faint
He asks, "Why choose to die if you can live this world?" He chuckled.
I gave him a faint smile and say, "A world so hateful, some would rather die, than be who they are.
Alyanna Mallari
#40. I would rather live 10 years doing what I Love, than drag through Life 50 years, hating every day I Live.-RVM
R.v.m.
#41. I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#42. Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?
Jason Mraz
#43. I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#44. I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.
Drake Bell
#45. You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
John Scalzi
#47. I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.
Anne Rice
#48. Em, I love you so much it hurts. I would do anything for you. I'd die for you, and I know you'd do the same, so don't you dare stand there and tell me you'd rather have a lifetime of nothing special than a few years of something extraordinary.
Kelley R. Martin
#49. I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.
Melina Marchetta
#50. I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.
Michelle Hodkin
#51. I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
Criss Jami
#52. Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.
Murasaki Shikibu
#53. most. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. But they won't give me that option. So I'll settle for being with someone who at least doesn't love me as much. I'm thankful for Margot. Not that I tell her this. Not that I tell her anything. I don't.
Katja Millay
#54. I would rather be kind and lose everything than cruel and gain many things.
Debasish Mridha
#55. I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.
Joe Lando
#56. It was V-day and I was stuck at home while the guy I was dating was at an Anti-Valentine's Day party. How wrong was that? It was one thing to be totally alone on V-day, but another to want to be with someone who would rather spend the evening protesting love instead of making it.
Kate Madison
#57. Pine Sap said once that he would rather die than see Tiger Lily tamed. I guess Tiger Lily felt the same way with Peter, because she stayed behind.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#58. True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.
Stephen L. Carter
#59. I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.
Patricia A. McKillip
#60. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#61. Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am?
Robin Hobb
#62. Not I, but rather the king you love so well. It appears he would see us marry. (Rowena)
My hairy arse. (Stryder)
That is much more information about your person, Lord Stryder, than I care to know. (Rowena)
Kinley MacGregor
#63. In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.
Michel De Montaigne
#64. I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
Criss Jami
#65. I love movies. I'm a nut. There's nothing I would rather do than see three movies a day.
Bree Turner
#66. But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen.
-Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue
Ariel Levy
#67. I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
James McAvoy
#68. Love isn't magic. Just like my family, just like my place in the universe, it's something that I can't keep, can't make last.
I would rather lose Ry before I ever have him.
Kiersten White
#69. I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'
Jonah Hill
#70. I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.
Greg Maddux
#71. I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.
James Balog
#72. I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing ... I would rather search for a new model or location.
Ellen Von Unwerth
#73. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.
C.J. Carlyon
#74. You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.
Michelle Hodkin
#75. If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.
Jean Reno
#76. I would rather lose with kindness than win with cruelty.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Love. Like clothes, I had guessed it was something that fit no two people exactly the same way. I was still unsure what the word looked like for me, but I sensed that sooner or rather than later, it would be fully defined. All that remained to be seen was if I could be satisfied with the definition.
Kiera Cass
#78. I can't let you take the risk. I love you too much." -Schuyler
"Then you would rather see me bonded to a women I do not love?"
-Jack
Melissa De La Cruz
#79. But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil. Sucking up minerals and motherly love. So that each March I may gleam into leaf.
Sylvia Plath
#80. I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
#81. I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.
David Torn
#82. I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.
William Haines
#83. Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
George Eliot
#84. I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
Elizabeth Gaskell
#85. I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.
Vince Gill
#86. You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
Pablo Picasso
#87. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#88. I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you
Veronica Roth
#89. You think I'm not? You think this is what the hell I wanted? To deliver your husband back to you when I'm so fucking in love with you that I would've rather cut out my own heart? I hate that I brought him home to you.
Corinne Michaels
#90. They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending you, and it makes me sick to the gut, for I would still rather die myself than see one hair on your head damaged by another man.
Saskia Walker
#92. Don't you ever cry again, Miss Zarish," he said in a strict but mild tone. "I would rather die than see tears in your eyes.
Sara Naveed
#93. And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.
Jeff Lindsay
#94. My parents were so old-fashioned in their attitude to sex that I would rather get in trouble with the police or at school because at least I would be punished less.
Clive Worth
#95. I believe that the sight is more important thing that the drawing; and i would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, that teach looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
Alain De Botton
#96. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
Albert Einstein
#97. I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
John Oliver
#98. I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you'll never make food that looks like that. I'd rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.
Amy Sedaris
#99. I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
William, Saroyan
#100. So often we are defined by what we've done
and the mistakes we've made
For once I would like to be
Measured by the steps I took today
Rather than the footprints of yesterday
Samantha King
