Top 100 I'd Rather Love Quotes
#1. I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."
Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in my mouth.
"You know ... I love you madly."
He smiled. "Yes, I know.
Sylvia Day
#2. Fall in love with me, Gary! She thought. Please. Please sit here holding me and think there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than here, and no girl I'd rather have in my lap than Beth Rose Chapman!
Caroline B. Cooney
#3. Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
Andrew Sullivan
#4. I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.
Lady Gaga
#5. I'd rather live a life I truly love by spending my time doing things I love and have that be my only life rather than devote myself to someone who can't be proven exists at all that wants our time and our love more than our virtues simply just so I can live again
Anonymous
#6. I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.
John Legend
#7. When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with,' William said.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#8. I'd rather live my life and do what I love and experience it. If I have some issues when I'm older, I mean, that's the cost of living a fantastic life.
Tory Nyhaug
#9. I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
Karen Salmansohn
#10. Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
Lauren Oliver
#11. I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia
Lisa Kleypas
#12. Maybe someday, I'd find someone who'd prove he really loved me. Someone who'd hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who'd never lie to me.
J.C. Reed
#13. I do have a core theology though. It's quite simple: God is love and He is always good. It's my position on everything. And I'm not much into debating it. I'd rather show than tell.
Jason Clark
#14. 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
#15. One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
Waylon Jennings
#16. I think I'd rather be liked than loved.
It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like.
So, I hope you like me.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with.
Graham Greene
#18. I'd much rather be someone's shot of whiskey than everyone's cup of tea.
Carrie Bradshaw
#19. I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.
Stephan Labossiere
#20. My life has never felt more complicated, but this is a complication that I'd rather exist than not have at all.
Krista Ritchie
#21. I love Sara's music and there's no one else i'd rather share a face with and I try to remember that I actually enjoy being around her.
Tegan Quin
#22. Yes. Eden, I fell in love with you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. But you fell in love with somebody else. And he gets to marry you. And then probably murder you. But you'd still rather be with him than with me,
Rachel Higginson
#23. 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
#24. I'd rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.
Angela Morrison
#25. If you asked me if I'd rather make love to you, or have my balls cut out with the spine of a fish, I'll tell you I'll have to get back to you. And after a day of deliberating, I'll probably tell you the fish, provided it's salmon and I can eat it first.
Jarod Kintz
#26. I'd rather fall in molten lava than fall in love. But I suppose that's just the romantic me.
Jarod Kintz
#27. Love is worth the pain, but I ate losing people. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd rather be miserable with you than be miserable without you.
Jay Bell
#28. In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
Jennifer McMahon
#29. I want to love and be loved ... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.
Daniel Mainwaring
#30. Because I'd rather fell guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear - Tess's Mother
Rosamund Lupton
#31. I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.
Mac Barnett
#32. I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
Victoria Moran
#33. I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
Sylvester Stallone
#34. My lord, I'd rather be alone."
His smile vanished. Not a single muscle in his body bulged, but the color of his eyes turned to dark ashes.
"And I'd rather not.
Chris Lange
#35. I'd rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.
Colleen Hoover
#36. I love music, and I love drumlines. I like school bands a lot. There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but I'd rather be a band geek. It's a little more interesting.
Jurnee Smollett
#37. I'd rather have you die and have known you for five minutes then to have never known you and not have this hole in my heart. The pain is real but so is the love.
Marata Eros
#38. Love should be between two people, and if it isn't, I'd rather bow out than take part in the race. I
Colleen Hoover
#39. I'd rather spend every day of my life in hell with you than a single day in heaven with you nowhere to be found.
F.E. Feeley Jr.
#40. Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes ... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.
Bindi Irwin
#41. Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.
Janet Fitch
#43. 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
#44. I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love.
Tahereh Mafi
#45. I'd much rather fall to my death than admit my weakness to you."
"The captain of the Royal Guard wants to impress a lowly handmaiden?"
"A clumsy young man wants to impress a beautiful young woman.
Renee Ahdieh
#46. I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.
Kristan Higgins
#47. There is never love without hurt, but I'd rather hurt than to have never loved.
R.K. Ryals
#48. I'd rather walk than drive a car. In Vancouver, where I am from, you can get to just about anywhere you need to go on foot. Even if it's raining I'll go out for a stroll. I just love that.
Kristin Kreuk
#49. I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
Martin Freeman
#50. If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I'd rather he'd be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I'd rather support sex!
Eva Mendes
#51. They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham Greene
#52. I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
R.L. Stine
#53. I love clothes and do sort of change my wardrobe a lot. But a thousand dollar jacket? I'd rather spend it on an experience, like traveling.
Douglas Booth
#54. I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.'
Solange Knowles
#55. You'll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn't your idea of love, is it? You'd rather cut me deep on earth to spare me pain in hell, whereas I think hell is right here.
Matthew J. Hefti
#56. Taking the safe road is good, but sometimes, you may miss what could be better. I'd rather love hard and get hurt then not really love at all.
M. Clarke
#57. Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#58. In the ring, it's fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I'd rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.
Hulk Hogan
#59. I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
Richard Bach
#60. I'd rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.
Kealohilani
#61. Love can kill you and I'd rather be alive than out there living.
Nicola Yoon
#62. I'd rather go my whole life in limbo than have him tell me that he's fallen in love with a woman who isn't me.
Elle Kennedy
#63. I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.
Mark Fiore
#64. The battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.
Taylor Swift
#65. I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former.
Donna Lynn Hope
#66. I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
Tori Spelling
#67. I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford
#68. The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.
Harry Haskell
#69. I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.
Cliff Floyd
#70. What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.
Gwenno
#71. My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh
anything but work.
Abraham Lincoln
#72. I love fashion, but I do it in a really laid-back way. I'd much rather be underdressed than overdressed.
Louise Nurding
#73. I never was in love with him. I only imagined I was. You know that. You know I'd rather be your wife in our house of dreams and fulfillment than a queen in a palace.
L.M. Montgomery
#74. I don't know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it's more a force to preserve freedom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. I think it's so hypocritical to be so anti-nudity in films, and be so pro-violence. I'd rather see two people making love, than somebody being done in. Or being shot and getting their head blown off.
Eva Mendes
#76. I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
Caroline Leavitt
#77. Dearest Cecilia, You'd be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don't think I can blame the heat.
Ian McEwan
#78. My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. I'd rather have you in my life than Margret. I'm not sorry you're here. Livia hugged Kyle again, trying to seal her love into her broken sister.
Debra Anastasia
#80. I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.
H.C.Paye
#81. I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
Rachel Nichols
#82. I'd rather fake my own fog, than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist? It's homemade.
Jarod Kintz
#83. If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
Vijay Singh
#84. 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
#85. I'd rather love you and be alone than love you and be with her or anyone.
Beth Harbison
#86. I'd rather be not the light in your life
The bright day might make me obscure
I'd rather be the cold darkness
For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure
Sanhita Baruah
#87. I'd rather not have an address in France but an address in Italy because I love the country.
Gerard Depardieu
#88. You have my permission not to love me;
I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I'd rather burn myself down
than change the locks.
Rachel McKibbens
#89. 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
#90. I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.
J.D. Robb
#91. I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.
Dana Hill
#92. I'd rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can't see. And that's not ignorance. That's just hope.
Caroline George
#93. I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others.
Eric Diehl
#94. 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
#95. Fall in love with what you're going to do for a living. To be able to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day is beyond words. I'd rather be a failure in something I love than be successful in something I hate.
George Burns
#96. BLAKE: I've come to learn that people are going to hate you and like you, no matter what. I'd rather be around people I want to be around.
Sam Crescent
#97. The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League.
Alan Shearer
#98. I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna, i'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.
Chris Brown
#99. His eyes searched hers. I'd rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn't seem worth giving up who you are to please others. Far as I'm concerned, they either like me or they don't. Their choice.
Leah Braemel
#100. I don't even want to be with anyone if there's even a remote possibility that there's a third party at play. Love should be between two people, and if it isn't, I'd rather bow out than take part in the race.
Colleen Hoover
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