Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Life's true face is the skull.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

There have been only two taboos in the world: sex and death. It is very strange why sex and death have been the two taboos not to be talked about, to be avoided. They are deeply connected. Sex represents life because all life arises out of sex, and death represents the end. And both have been taboo - don't talk about sex and don't talk about death.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

People ask me a lot like, "Hey, so when are you done with your tour?" Like when I die. That's when I'm done with my tour.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.