Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

To live is to die.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Death is a very important part of life.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Death is an art, you know.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.