Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

• I don't want to die without any scars.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Death, Want

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Death, Suicide

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

• Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Truth, Real

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Drug

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Wisdom, Zero

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

• I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Pain, Wall

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

• Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Hero, Names

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

• The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Firsts, Steps

  "Fight Club: A Novel". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

• If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, People, Dying

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

• Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Lying, Animal

• Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Nice, Angel

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

• Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Relationship, Death, Special You

  "Survivor". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, February 17, 1999.

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