Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

You were supposed to die. It would have been a good start. (Kessar) I don’t know. I die, you get bored. World ends. Doesn’t really fit, does it? Besides, I can’t make things too easy on you. What’s life without pain? (Sin)

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

There's worse things in life than death.