Top 100 Would Rather Die Quotes
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
Margaret Cavendish
#7. I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
Robert E.Lee
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The world is ending. This is your chance. Would you rather die here, or in a Jaeger?
Alex Irvine
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.
Samuel Sharpe
#15. Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.
Thom S. Rainer
#16. [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
#17. 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
#18. I would rather live a short life out there and be free, than slowly die here and be safe.
Jared Southwick
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Would you rather pay the extra charge or die?
Wesley Chu
#25. 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
#26. I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.
Azzedine Alaia
#27. I would rather die walking than die of boredom reading about how to walk safely. This
Tristan Gooley
#28. I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.
Cristina Marrero
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
Aaron Sorkin
#34. 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
#35. 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
#37. I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours
Albert Shanker
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!
Bertrand Russell
#41. 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
#43. Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
Anthony Liccione
#44. I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.
Emiliano Zapata
#45. My heart is not brave or big. It is not cruel either. It is not strong at all. I keep it within this iron cage for a reason. Breathe on it wrong and I will die ... Just go now. I would rather let you see my face, than my heart.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace
Rebecca Ashe
#46. I would rather die and to go hell than wake up one day and find myself an inmate in that guesthouse of gone minds, gone things, bad carpets, furniture that needs permission.
Ali Smith
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblest
That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
Rather than, screened by safe majority,
Preserve his little life to little end,
And never raise a rebel cry!
John Galsworthy
#51. She deserves to be kissed by someone who loves her. Someone who spends every waking moment trying to do everything right by her. Someone who would rather die than see her hurt. She doesn't deserve to be kissed by anyone other than me.
Colleen Hoover
#52. Because my biggest secret of all - the one I would rather die than tell, the one I wouldn't even put in my diary - is that I really, truly, in my heart, want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful so much - because it will keep me safe, and keep me lucky, and it's too exhausting not to be.
Caitlin Moran
#53. Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger
#54. It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.
Alex Ferguson
#55. The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
Max Lucado
#56. Her mother set to with the hairbrush again. "But would that be so awful, darling? To be the prettiest thing in Brimscombe-and-Thrupp?"
"I should rather die."
"You nearly did."
"Yes, but I tend to blame the Germans.
Chris Cleave
#57. I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.
Robert Fanney
#58. If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.
Robert Falls
#59. We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
W. H. Auden
#60. When you feel like you would rather die than live another day with an eating disorder, know that I used to feel that way too. Search deep inside yourself for the part that wants to live,
Jenni Schaefer
#61. He would rather die with her than live a single day more without her.
Jackie Williams
#62. From the pilot's seat, Cal glowers. "He's done enough." He watches me take the chair next to him, seething all the while. "You really want to storm a secret prison built for people like us?"
"Would you rather let Julian die?" No answer but for a low hiss. "That's what I thought.
Victoria Aveyard
#64. I don't want to lose my memories. Don't make me forget. I would rather die as
Elena, than live as a shadow.
Nalini Singh
#65. I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
Al Capone
#66. I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.
David LaChapelle
#67. I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.
Lady Gaga
#68. Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
Lev Grossman
#69. People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
Sue Monk Kidd
#70. The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than to live on his knees.
George Washington
#71. I cannot be your mistress," I say simply. "I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family." I pause. I am anxious not to be too discouraging. "Whatever I might wish in my heart," I say very softly.
Philippa Gregory
#72. How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?
Rick Yancey
#73. On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
Marge Piercy
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
Andy Stanley
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
Edmond Rostand
#82. Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#83. Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor
Peter Mutanda
#84. I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves.
Blake Crouch
#85. Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.
R. Scott Bakker
#86. 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
#87. I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#88. I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.
Alison Croggon
#89. 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
#90. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.
Plato
#91. I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
Holly Lisle
#92. 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
#94. I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.
Alan Arkin
#95. I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.
Xuanzang
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I would rather die standing than live kneeling
Charb
#99. 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
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