Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

We see your willingness to die beautifully. We don’t see the need to die beautifully.

You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.

I want to be a martyr.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.

For love of country, they accepted death.

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.

His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.