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Death Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
- We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
- 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…
- You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
- Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
- Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
- On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
- It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
- I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort 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…
- A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to…
- At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked…
- Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
- You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
- You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in…
- This isn’t really death,’ Tyler says. ‘We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.’ I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking…
- We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence,…
- This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
- If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets…
- I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
- Life is short, death is forever
- The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
- 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…
- 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…
- The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden