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Quotes About Mortality

I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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 heroes.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. Long-term or short-term? she asks. Both. Long-term, she says, we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after. Really? Really, she says. So don't sweat it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You are permanent, but this life is not.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There's al­ways the chance you could die right in the mid­dle of your life sto­ry.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.
~ Chuck Palahniuk