Top 100 Rather Die Quotes
#1. I'd rather live long in obscurity than die young with fame.
Rick DeStefanis
#2. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.
Steven Aitchison
#3. I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.
Mitch Lucker
#4. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
Anatole France
#5. In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.
Edward St. Aubyn
#6. The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.
Sebastian Junger
#7. When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
Frederick Lenz
#9. May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!
Lord Chesterfield
#10. The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
Saadi
#11. 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
#12. The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
Winston Churchill
#13. 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
#14. Is it possible that by choosing to spend your money on such things rather than contributing to an aid agency, you are leaving a child to die, a child you could have saved?
Anonymous
#15. There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
Robert E.Lee
#16. I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of us weren't even doing little things.
Charles Bukowski
#17. Join you? After everything you've done? I'd rather die!
Erin Hunter
#18. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
Jimmy Buffett
#19. You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.
Dalai Lama
#21. We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#22. 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
#23. He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod.
John Scalzi
#24. I'd rather die than you not be by my side.
Eminem
#25. I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
Margaret Cavendish
#26. Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she'd rather die than go back to a man she didn't love.
Brenna Yovanoff
#27. I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
Robert E.Lee
#28. It's easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it's real, when the moment comes to choose.
Ann Leckie
#29. Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.
Michelle Franklin
#30. This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don't want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.
Francis Chan
#31. I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.
LeCrae
#32. The world is ending. This is your chance. Would you rather die here, or in a Jaeger?
Alex Irvine
#33. Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets ... What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.
Dan Rather
#34. One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
Justin Cronin
#35. I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.
Shania Twain
#36. They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.
Alan Moore
#37. Their separation was becoming intolerable. "I would rather die!" said Emma. She was writhing in his arms, weeping. "Adieu! adieu! When shall I see you again?
Gustave Flaubert
#38. I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.
Paloma Faith
#39. I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.
Samuel Sharpe
#40. I was told by six doctors over six days that they could start me on full-body chemotherapy. And I said, "If you know where I'm coming from, I'd rather die."
Suzanne Somers
#41. Yes
or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#42. Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.
Thom S. Rainer
#43. [We're] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?
P. J. O'Rourke
#44. I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#45. I would rather live a short life out there and be free, than slowly die here and be safe.
Jared Southwick
#46. I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.
Stephan Labossiere
#47. I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.
Shayne Colaco
#48. Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.
Knut Hamsun
#49. Because I know you live on the hope of seeing a better tomorrow, unlike the skeptics who have nothing to live for today. I would rather die with hope, than to live without any hope at all.
Nely Cab
#50. I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#51. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Albert Camus
#52. Well; I would rather die yonder than in a street, or on a frequented road, ' I reflected. 'And far better that crows and ravens -if any ravens there be in these regions- should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a work-house coffin, and moulder in a pauper's grave.
Charlotte Bronte
#53. I'd rather die smiling. And running makes me smile.
Hal Higdon
#54. Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.
Neal Shusterman
#55. Would you rather pay the extra charge or die?
Wesley Chu
#56. We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.
Temple Grandin
#57. The memories are very fucking great. I never want to forget. Ever. I'd rather die than not have these memories. Is that great enough for you?
Lucian Bane
#58. You made the right choice," Roden whispered. "Though you did choose his name rather quickly.
"He has a skinny neck. He'd have died faster." (Jaron)
"That's why you chose me? Because it'll take me longer to die?"
"Yes, Roden, that's exactly why."
"Enough bickering!" (Vargan)
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#59. Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.
Sam Davis
#60. I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die.
Anthony Hopkins
#61. I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
Sabaa Tahir
#62. I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.
Azzedine Alaia
#63. I belong to you. I've belonged to you since the beginning, since before I even knew that I did," he rambles. "I'll never hurt you again. I'd rather die than to hurt you
L. H. Cosway
#64. I would rather die walking than die of boredom reading about how to walk safely. This
Tristan Gooley
#66. 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
#67. I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.
Cristina Marrero
#68. I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward
Tupac Shakur
#69. Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
Tupac Shakur
#70. To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.
Aristotle.
#72. I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
Jim Harrison
#73. I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.
Franz Kafka
#74. prefer to die not knowing something, rather than live my entire life believing something was so, only to find out later that it wasn't true.
Scott Alan Roberts
#76. Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.
Steven Pinker
#77. 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
#78. He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
Colum McCann
#79. Let's examine what prize that is one more time; no more direct sunlight ever again, no more laughter. You get eternity, but you don't have the sense of humor to enjoy it! Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.
Justine Larbalestier
#80. Many dead divers have been found inside shipwrecks with more than enough air remaining to have made it to the surface. It is not that they chose to die, but rather that they could no longer figure out how to live.
Robert Kurson
#81. Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.
Tina Fey
#82. Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Emily Dickinson
#83. In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
Ralph Ellison
#84. No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.
C.S. Lewis
#85. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
Aaron Sorkin
#86. 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
#87. We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#88. In the changing room, attempting to shove your misshapen body into the size you think you should be rather than the size you are usually leads to some form of weeping while screaming, "IT'S FINE, I'LL JUST WEAR A BAG OF FLOUR AROUND MY BODY UNTIL I DEHYDRATE ENTIRELY AND CAN DIE IN PEACE.
Scaachi Koul
#89. 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
#90. You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people ... you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.
Lorraine Heath
#91. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.
Carol Lee
#93. Live for something rather than die for nothing.
- George Patton
Cindy Gerard
#94. I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours
Albert Shanker
#95. We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
Vivienne Westwood
#96. One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.
Rachel Held Evans
#97. I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
Zendaya
#98. Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!
Bertrand Russell
#99. Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.
Amaury Nolasco
#100. There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.
N.K. Jemisin
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