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Dead Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
- No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is…
- Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of…
- 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…
- There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old…
- Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid…
- These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
- When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.…
- Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
- It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one…
- Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the…
- If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
- You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light…
- This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
- This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.
- Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch.…
- The lucky ones are just born dead.
- There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
- Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
- The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were…
- The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one…
- When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories well only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded call of midnight.…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon