“I would rather be dead.”

“I would much rather have a living husband with no job and no gold than a dead one.”

“I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead”

“Rather be dead then cool”

“I’d rather be dead than so suspicious I can’t trust anybody.”

“When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.”

“I’d rather be a live pessimist than a dead comedian.”

“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”

““Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?” Khouri had asked.
“Heard of it,” Volyova said. “Don’t happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?””

“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”