“Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
John, in Ch. 12
Brave New World (1932)
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“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
“I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.”
Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
§ 3; quoted also by Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica xv. 13
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
Source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 1 : Black Shiny FBI Shoes
“I'd rather do comics than novels.”
Jim Starlin (1949) Comic creator
Interview at comicbookresources.com (28 July 2000) http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=194 <br class="br">Context: I've made more money in novels than I did in my entire career in comics. The few years I did novels, they paid off so well, I don't have to be a slave to doing comics. But I'd rather do comics than novels. If I wanted to do it just for the money, I'd run off and do another novel. I just don't have the juice for it. I'm really not interested in it. It's a love for what this medium is.
“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph”
Tom Wolfe book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
On Ken Kesey, in Ch. I : Black Shiny FBI Shoes
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
Context: He talks in a soft voice with a country accent, almost a pure country accent, only crackling and rasping and cheese-grated over the two-foot hookup, talking about —
"—there's been no creativity," he is saying, "and I think my value has been to help create the next step. I don't think there will be any movement off the drug scene until there is something else to move to —"
— all in a plain country accent about something — well, to be frank, I didn't know what in the hell it was all about. Sometimes he spoke cryptically, in aphorisms. I told him I had heard he didn't intend to do any more writing. Why? I said.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph," he said.
He talked about something called the Acid Test and forms of expression in which there would be no separation between himself and the audience. It would be all one experience, with all the senses opened wide, words, music, lights, sounds, touch —
lightning.