Top 100 Rather Die Quotes
#1. I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
Morning Star
#2. On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
Marge Piercy
#3. I blinked once, "if it's anywhere near as bad as what those assholes did to me... I'm tired of living through this shit just to step into deeper fucking shit. So if all you have planned for me is more torture, I think I'd rather die. Just do me one favor and don't... I don't want to die slow.
C.J. Roberts
#4. There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
Tahir Shah
#5. I'd rather die at the hands of a friend than an enemy.
Stephen King
#6. I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.
John Bachar
#7. Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.
Robert Smith
#8. Keep to your precious honor. Rather die than sully it. There is only honor in a man's life and the rest is meaningless gibberish.
Alaric Longward
#9. The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.
Geoff Mulgan
#10. His eyes fixed on hers, the gold flecks darkening to amber. An assassin who looks after his own skin? That's exactly what I am, Brenna. I would rather die than harm you, but anyone else? I could kill them without blinking. It's what I was born to do.
Nalini Singh
#11. Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Thomas A. Edison
#12. I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise.
Lev Grossman
#13. But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#14. What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?
Joseph Heller
#15. Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#16. Without Your life I know there is no life. For I was dead in sin and You gave life to me! Without Your life I'd surely rather die! Lord Jesus, live Your life through me! You are life to me!
Dennis Jernigan
#17. Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor
Peter Mutanda
#18. I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
Felix Baumgartner
#19. I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves.
Blake Crouch
#20. Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.
R. Scott Bakker
#21. I only box. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. I can't just go to the gym and run. I'd rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me.
Gigi Hadid
#22. Monday at 9 A.M. is when people start their workweek," Joy said passionately. "Think about that, George. People would rather die than go to work,
Jon Gordon
#23. I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#24. I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.
Alison Croggon
#25. I realized that I'd rather die with you than live with someone else.
Rachel Vincent
#26. I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
Lauren Oliver
#27. Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
Adrienne Bailon
#28. I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.
Salman Rushdie
#29. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
Jimmy Buffett
#30. Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#31. It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.
Ian Fleming
#33. I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.
Cass McCombs
#34. I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.
Alan Arkin
#35. Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.
Teju Cole
#36. I'd rather die without blood than him losing a drop of his own blood!
Hotaru Odagiri
#37. I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.
Xuanzang
#38. I would rather die and be reborn and see the sun again, than to live to the end of the world without daylight.
Cassandra Clare
#39. Something in my patience snaps.. 'I'd really rather die than eat your food food and hear you call me 'love'... He holds my gaze for a few infinitely long seconds before he pulls a gun out of jis jacket pocket, He fires.
Tahereh Mafi
#40. Being told to cut off and walk away from a child - I cannot imagine it. I think I'd rather die.
Kate Winslet
#41. I would rather die than betray his trust."
"That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed.
"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.
J.K. Rowling
#42. I would rather die standing than live kneeling
Charb
#43. Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I'd rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.
Immortal Technique
#46. I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!
Wilhelm Steinitz
#47. I knew they would kill me when they found out, but ... " He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. "I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.
Marissa Meyer
#48. One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
Steven Dietz
#49. Now, for the first time, I wonder if this is how my mother felt. If cancer was her prison; the chemo treatments, torture. I understand it. I would rather die.
Abigail Haas
#50. He didn't fear much, but being locked away in a room was dreadful. He'd rather die than be locked away.
Jeff Carroll
#51. I can't just sit back and watch someone die. I'd rather die alongside them than do nothing.- Kirito
Reki Kawahara
#52. Would I dance with you? Both forever and rather die. / It would be like dying, yes. Yes I would.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#53. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.
Richard Rohr
#54. There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#55. Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
Harold Brodkey
#56. No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They'd rather die. It's so uncool to be early.
Francine Pascal
#57. The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.
Emma Stone
#60. Trust you? Rue
trust you? You counterfeited your own death rather than wed me. You told me you'd rather die than stay in Darkfrith. I can't
I don't know how to fix that. I don't know how to mend it. Tell me." He took a step toward her. "Tell me, and I'll do it.
Shana Abe
#61. They're true," I replied defiantly. "I came here to kill you. And if I can't do that, then I'd rather die."
"You failed, you know. On the street."
"Yeah. I kind of figured that out when I woke up here.
Richelle Mead
#62. 2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think
Bob Proctor
#63. Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
Alain De Botton
#64. Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?
George R R Martin
#65. Too much school."
"Would you rather be dead?! Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?!
Chuck Palahniuk
#66. Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do.
Frederick Leboyer
#67. I would rather die a spinster - poor, ruined, scorned, and alone - than suffer that heartbreak daily.
Tessa Dare
#68. I'm not a superstitious person, but when I wake up from this dream, this painfully clear memory of John, I have the most horrible feeling in my chest.
I would rather die than see them hurt you.
And I have a sudden fear that somehow, some way, what he said in the dream will come true.
Marie Lu
#69. 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
#70. Pocahontas, look at me, I'd rather die tomorrow than live 100 years without knowing you.
John Smit
#71. I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.
Nate Saint
#72. Would you rather die like a hero or live like a coward?
Kate Lord Brown
#73. 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
#74. I would rather die because I betrayed them that live because I betrayed you
Marissa Meyer
#75. We each have an appointment with death. I'd rather die for a cause than die of old age never having done something important.
Brenda Drake
#76. Father, I'd rather die at your hands than at Liam's ... or worse, Mel's. Give me one second to tell you and then I will run faster than Forrest Gump.
J.J. McAvoy
#77. I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup.
Thom Yorke
#78. I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.
Scott Crow
#79. I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.
Michelle Hodkin
#80. If I'm going to die, I'd rather die in battle than be hunted down like a rat.
Julie Kagawa
#81. 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
#82. I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.
Jay-Z
#83. What I said was true. My heart is yours to break. As you already know, I'd rather die than see you in pain. In the moment I was hit, when I fell to the floor sure my life was ending, all I could think about was you.
Kiera Cass
#84. Long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there-not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#85. If they would rather die, ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Charles Dickens
#86. I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame ... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!
Marc Almond
#89. I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn't laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.
Miranda July
#90. I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
Tony Benn
#91. 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
#92. With his arms outstretched, nailed to the cross, Jesus was saying, "This is how valuable you are to me. I love you this much! I'd rather die than live without you." You are priceless.
Rick Warren
#93. 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
#94. I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan Of Arc
#96. She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.
Cassandra Clare
#97. I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.
Francesca Woodman
#99. Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.
Tom Robbins
#100. Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you."
"Be careful what you ask for you may get what you want.
Amanda Stephan
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