Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I watched all these movies like 'King Kong' and 'Godzilla' when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

We are fossils in the making.

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.