Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

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

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I long ago made up my mind that if anybody wants to kill me, they could do it.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.