Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Masochism is a valuable job skill... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?.. view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Every woman is just a different kind of problem... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?.. view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

I just don't want to die without a few scars... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?.. view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

What we don't understand we can make mean anything... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?.. view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?.. view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up... view

By: Chuck Palahniuk