History Quotes / BetterToDieThanBeKilled

->''"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,\\
And the women come out to cut up what remains,\\
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,\\
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."''
-->-- '''Creator/RudyardKipling'''

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->''"Trump claimed ownership of the Republican Party four years ago when he claimed the cult-like loyalty of their voters. Republican politicians may hate him in private, in their most secret of secrets, but they need his voters. And so they bend the knee, time and time again, to Trump. And if that leads to a death spiral for their party, then they would sooner death spiral with Trump at the helm than self-destruct by letting him split their party."''
-->-- '''@/TobiasDrake''', [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000a18674100&page=14274 The General U.S. Politics Thread]]

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->'''Freeza:''' Someone of my strength could never fall to the likes of you. I'll die by my own hands before I let that happen!
->'''Goku:''' What are you waiting for?

->''"Defeated by her after all these years... I wanted to create a better world. Who knows what she wants? No, I won't give you the satisfaction of the final blow. Farewell."''

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->''"You’re talking to the guy who regularly brings drinks with me. Next time – check everyone’s pockets, ya dumbass. (...) You’re not getting the satisfaction of killing me, bear… because just because I’m useless… does not mean I’m'' '''''nothing'''''."
-->--'''[[spoiler:Yasuhiro Hagakure]]''', ''Fanfic/AnotherSideSportingHopefuls''

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-->--M about Vesper Lynd, ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''

-->-- A captured program, ''Film/TronLegacy''

->''The teeth of his old enemies, these ancient brothers and sisters of a thing which had called itself Kurt Barlow, sank into him like stingers. Callahan felt them not at all. He was smiling as he pulled the trigger and escaped them for good.''

->And no one is ever gonna take my life from me\\

A ghost is born

-->--D-Isl's Testament, ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes''

->[[PathOfInspiration Morninglight]] are worse than vampires: they don't just suck you dry and let you go, that's too easy. They ''[[TheCorruption change]]'' you, empty out your mind and body, [[MindRape fill what's left of you with nightmares]], strip you down until you're [[ReforgedIntoAMinion just a thing]], and it's still not over. There's no release. [[BodyHorror Only the changing]]. It's best when the eyes are gone: you can't look into a - what do you say, tentacle? - and see what's [[AndIMustScream trapped behind it]]. I'm not ending up like that, no way. I won't have [[OmnicidalManiac the oblivion I dreamed of]], but I'll take death cheap and dirty over the Morninglight.

-->-- '''Lalli to Emil''', ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent''

->''I'm sure she hoped they would let her live, but she must've known she was going to her death."

->''I'm sure she hoped they'd let her live, but she must have known she was going to her death."

-->--M about Vesper Lynd, ''[[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Casino Royale]]''

-->-- ''Anime/DragonBallKai''

-->--M about Vesper Lynd, ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''

-->--M about Vesper Lynd, ''Film/CasinoRoyale

->''I'm sure she hopes they'd let her live, but she must have known she was going to her death."
—>—M about Vesper Lynd, ''Film/CasinoRoyale

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->''"If it's the only way, you can leave my body behind.[[note]]Lalli is currently in a coma and communicating with Emil telepathically.[[/note]] But please put a bullet in my brain, I don't want my body to be ripped apart by them."''
-->-- '''Lalli to Emil''', ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent''

->''Dearest Helena,\\
\\
By the time you receive this message, news of our defeat will have reached the Earth. The creatures we were sent here to tame are untameable. The colonies we were sent here to reclaim proved to be more formidable than we anticipated.\\
\\
Whatever you may know about what happened here today, know this: Alexei did not die gloriously in battle. I killed him. My pride killed him. My pride continues to consume me even now.\\
\\
You will never see me again, Helena.\\
\\
Tell our children that I love them, and that their father died in defense of their future.\\
\\
Au revoir''
-->-- '''Admiral [=DuGalle=]''''s final letter, ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftI StarCraft: Brood War]]'', shortly before he self-terminated

->''I would rather go out in a blaze, than give 'em the glory...''
-->-- '''Music/{{MF DOOM}}''', Deep Fried Frenz

->''Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."''
-->-- '''Bill Maher'''

->''This is no time for suicide! We're about to be killed!''
-->-- '''Uncle Gabby''', ''WesternAnimation/TheDrinkyCrowShow''

->''"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,\\
And the women come out to cut up what remains,\\
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,\\
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."''
-->-- '''Creator/RudyardKipling'''

-->--'''Chloe''', ''Series/HarpersIsland''

-->--'''Series/{{Farscape}}''', ''[[Recap/FarscapeS02E19LiarsGunsAndMoneyANotSoSimplePlan Liars, Guns & Money I: A Not So Simple Plan]]''

->''"[[LargeHam ERASE ME!!!]]"''
-->--A captured program, ''Film/TronLegacy''

->''"It is inside me. I feel it spreading, clawing at my will, tearing at my thoughts. It moves me against my will, to this cavern. Here it will end. I do not wish this, do not want my body to become a weapon for the Ing within me. It hates. It demands obedience. I will fight to the end. I shall self-terminate before I will become a pawn of a filthy Ing."''
-->--D-Isl's Testament, ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes''

->'''Freeza:''' Someone of my strength could never fall to the likes of you. I'll die by my own hands before I let that happen!
->'''Goku:''' What are you waiting for?
-->-- ''Anime/DragonBallKai''

->''"[[SelfDisposingVillain I too will decide how I die!]] [[IronicEcho Sound familiar]], dear?"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:[[BigBad Ragyo Kiruyin]]]]''', ''Anime/KillLaKill''

->''"You have no idea what you've unleashed here today. There are some things far more frightening than death."''
-->-- '''The Grand Inquisitor''', choosing to fall to his death rather than face the wrath of Darth Vader, ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''

->Urian's cruelty was as legendary as [[OneManArmy his skill]]: his foes said that he had the heart of a daemon, and that if you were captured by him, it was better to swallow your own tongue and choke to death than survive [[ColdBloodedTorture the horrors]] the following hours or days would bring. When Urian learnt of this, he made sure that, in future, [[TongueTrauma his prisoners had no tongues to choke on]].
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Dark Elves Army Book (4th Edition)''

-->-- ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' VII

->''"If it's the only way, you can leave my body behind.[[note]]Lalli is cuurently in a coma and communicating with Emil telepathically.[[/note]] But please put a bullet in my brain, I don't want my body to be ripped apart by them."''