Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

What's so noble about being dead?

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Men, today we die a little.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn't. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism?

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

If I die, what a beautiful death.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.