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. I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
Margaret Cavendish
#6. I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
Robert E.Lee
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.
Samuel Sharpe
#11. Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.
Thom S. Rainer
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.
Azzedine Alaia
#18. I would rather die walking than die of boredom reading about how to walk safely. This
Tristan Gooley
#19. I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.
Cristina Marrero
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours
Albert Shanker
#26. 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
#27. Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!
Bertrand Russell
#28. 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
#29. Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
Anthony Liccione
#30. I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.
Emiliano Zapata
#31. 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
#32. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.
Robert Fanney
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. He would rather die with her than live a single day more without her.
Jackie Williams
#44. 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
#45. I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.
David LaChapelle
#46. I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.
Lady Gaga
#47. Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
Lev Grossman
#48. People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
Sue Monk Kidd
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
Marge Piercy
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#59. Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor
Peter Mutanda
#60. I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves.
Blake Crouch
#61. Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.
R. Scott Bakker
#62. 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
#63. I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#64. I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.
Alison Croggon
#65. 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
#67. I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.
Alan Arkin
#68. I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.
Xuanzang
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I would rather die standing than live kneeling
Charb
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
Morning Star
#78. I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup.
Thom Yorke
#79. I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.
Scott Crow
#80. I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.
Michelle Hodkin
#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. 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
#83. If they would rather die, ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Charles Dickens
#86. 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
#87. 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
#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 would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan Of Arc
#91. 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
#92. I would rather die because I betrayed them that live because I betrayed you
Marissa Meyer
#93. I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.
Nate Saint
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I would rather die a spinster - poor, ruined, scorned, and alone - than suffer that heartbreak daily.
Tessa Dare
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think
Bob Proctor
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