Ending is better than mending.

For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Sometimes dead is better

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war.
Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

peace WITH trade, is preferable to war WITHOUT it.