I'd Rather Be Dead Quotes

#1. If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

Anna Pavlova

#2. I'd rather be dead than dying.

Stephen Evans

#3. I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Elton John

#4. I'd rather be dead than be popular.

Kelly Prososki

#5. That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary. That. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead -

Cassandra Clare

#6. I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

Charles Evers

#7. The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Angelina Jolie

#8. I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

Mick Jagger

#9. Inessa," he said in a husky voice, "without you here with me, I'd rather be dead. With you in my heart, and me in yours, I am alive.

Tillie Cole

#10. I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom
not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

Angela Thirkell

#12. 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

#13. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

Saul Bellow

#14. I would rather be dead than not read

Annie Proulx

#15. For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Lord Chesterfield

#16. I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

Elton John

#17. I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Alexander Stoddart

#18. Yeah, I'd rather be a flower that only blossoms once before it dies, and then nourishes the ground with its remains - than this empty soul that's stuck in a dead shell.

Michelle Horst

#19. I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

Homer

#20. 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

#21. I can't let you die!" I sobbed.
"It'll be like I'm dead anyways without you. Since I left, that's what it's felt like - like some part of me died because I couldn't be with you, couldn't see you. I'd rather die knowing it was for your freedom.

D.T. Dyllin

#22. I would rather be dead than empty

Veronica Roth

#23. Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles

Homer

#24. Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Aldous Huxley

#25. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#26. We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.

Stephen King

#27. And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

Jimmy Cliff

#28. I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking.

Sol Luckman

#29. I don't agree with him. I would rather be dead the empty, like the factionless

Veronica Roth

#30. If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

James Hetfield

#31. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prision of my own making

Tahereh Mafi

#32. He says he'd rather be dead than leave me. According to him, we're family. I guess that makes me the psycho uncle no one wants to talk to. And he's the kid with only imaginary friends for company. 'Normal' Rockwell, here we come. (Jared)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

Homer

#34. I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.

Tahereh Mafi

#35. Jean ... you are a greater friend than I ever could have imagined before I met you; I owe you my life too many times over to count. I would rather be dead myself than lose you. Not just because you're all I have left.

Scott Lynch

#36. It is not the dead who are to be feared, I thought, but rather the living. Only the living can cast you down among the dead.

Alan Bradley

#37. To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.

John Lasseter

#38. I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it's tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be
old. And then you'll be dead.

Tim Minchin

#39. And also ... well ... i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms."
What'd they say?"
Over their dead bodies."
What did you say?"
I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

Carolyn Mackler

#40. I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Davy Crockett