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Quotes About Mortality

There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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
To anyone reading this who isn't already dead, I wish you luck, honestly I do. You just keep swallowing your vitamins. Keep jogging around reservoirs and avoiding second hand cigarette smoke. Cross your fingers! Maybe death won't happen to you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I write: All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
there's worse ways to be dead than dying.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tienes que saber, no temer, saber que algún día vas a morir, y hasta que no entiendas eso, eres inútil.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To all of you alive people walking around, taking your multivitamins and busy being Lutheran or getting colonoscopies, you need to invest in a good-quality, long-lasting wristwatch with day and date functions. Don't count on getting any cell phone reception in Hell, and don't think for a second you'll have the forethought to die with your charger cord in hand or even find yourself locked inside a rusted jail cell with a compatible electrical outlet.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I love knowing a lot of people, but the downside is that means going to a lot of funerals.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Önce teslim olmal?s?n. Her ÅŸeyden önce korkmay? b?rak?p, bir gün öleceÄŸini kabullenmelisin. Sadece her ÅŸeyi kaybettikten sonra özgür kalabiliriz.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Crying is right at hand when you see how everything you ever accomplished will end up as trash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What she's learned is what she always learns. Plate was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You never feel as alive as when you make somebody else dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Death is the one big mistake that none of us ever plans to make
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Imagine there's no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Esse é o peixinho número 641 em uma vida repleta de peixinhos dourados. Meus pais me deram o primeiro para me ensinar como amar e cuidar de outra criaturinha viva de Deus. Seiscentos e quarenta peixinhos depois, a única coisa que sei é que tudo que você ama vai morrer. Quando você encontrar alguém especial, pode contar que um dia essa pessoa vai estar morta e enterrada.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's prostate. I get cancer. I kill Jack.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Death isn't the end of peril. There are deaths beyond death. Like it or not, death isn't the end of anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk