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Quotes About Mortality

Haunting her was the idea that we each summon our own death.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
everything you ever love will reject you or die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's fucking weird, hearing somebody's died tomorrow. Like you could still call that commuter man, right now, in Moscow, and say: "Stay home!
~ 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. Oh, but now there was dying and death and loss and grief. Weeping and shuddering, terror and remorse. Now that she knows where we're all going, Marla feels every moment of her life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
what makes life feel like Hell is our expectation that it should last forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Para acalmar essa garota e fazê-la ouvir, conto a ela a história do meu peixinho. 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.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Se zavÃ…â"¢enýma o?ima se ptám, jestli ví, jak to vÅ¡echno dopadne. "DlouhodobÄ› nebo krátkodobÄ›?" odpoví otázkou. Oboje. "DlouhodobÄ› vzato" vykládá, "vÅ¡ichni zemÃ…â"¢eme. Pak se naÅ¡e tÄ›la rozloží Žádné pÃ…â"¢ekvapení. KrátkodobÄ› vzato budeme žít šťastnÄ›, dokud neumÃ…â"¢eme.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Heroinsucht, und in einer Welt, wo man der Faulheit bezichtigt wird, nur weil man sich nicht die Beine rasiert, gilt das Totsein als der ultimative Charakterfehler. Als ob man vor dem Leben weggelaufen wäre – sich einfach nicht genug Mühe gegeben, sein Potential nicht voll ausgeschöpft hätte. Du Drückeberger!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Questo è il mio pesciolino numero 641 in una vita costellata di pesciolini rossi. I miei genitori mi comprarono il primo per insegnarmi cosa significasse amare e prendersi cura di una creatura vivente del Signore. Seicentoquaranta pesci dopo, l'unica cosa che ho imparato è che tutto quello che ami morirà.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you... You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Alle werden eines grässlichen Todes sterben … ist das nicht toll?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Then because she thought it would make a good case study, I had Koro Syndrome, where you're convinced your penis is getting smaller and smaller and when it disappears, you'll die (Fabian, 1991; Tseng et al., 1992).
~ Chuck Palahniuk
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. Bob
~ Chuck Palahniuk
L'unica cosa che ho imparato è che tutto quello che ami morirà. La volta che incontri qualcuno di speciale, puoi farci affidamento il giorno che è già morto e sepolto.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You only have a few hours. And remember, he yelled, you don't know exactly when the fuel will run out. There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story. And I yelled, So what else is new?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Es fácil llorar cuando te das cuenta de que las personas a las que quieres acabarán por rechazarte o morirse.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You wake up at SeaTac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Un día estás vivo y arrastrándote por el mundo, y al siguiente te has convertido en un frío fertilizante, en bufé para gusanos. Este es el asombroso milagro de la muerte.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Eventually, when I stepped back inside the parlor door, only my nana's body was left on the sofa. The best of her--her laugh, her stories, even her coughing--was gone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tanr?n?n yaratt??? baÅŸka bir canl?y? sevmem ve sevmeyi ogrenmem için ailem bana y?llar önce ilk bal???m? alm??t?. Sahip olduÄŸum 640 baliktan sonra oÄŸrendiÄŸim tek ÅŸey insanin sevdiÄŸi herÅŸeyin bir gün öleceÄŸi oluyor. Özel kiÅŸiyle kar??laÅŸt???n ilk anda onun bir gün olup topra??n alt?na gireceÄŸinden emin olabilirsin.
~ Chuck Palahniuk