Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

Give us a religion that will help us to live—we can die without assistance.