Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk
(Fight Club, 1996)
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized yet.
Everyone's in their own personal coma.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.
What's worse? Hell or nothing?
We live and die and anything else is just delusion.
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
You're a different human being to everyone you meet.
Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
Without sacrifice, without death, we would have nothing.
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
Money you don't work to earn, you spend very quickly.
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
The things you own end up owning you.
What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
Chuck Palahniuk
(Invisible Monsters, 1999)
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
What bothered Rant was the fake, bullshit nature of everything.
Our real discoveries come from chaos.
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.