Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
(Fight Club, 1996)
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
On a large enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
There is no hell. There is no heaven.
I don't want to die without any scars.
There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Nobody's all the way dead yet, but lets just say the clock is ticking.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
Chuck Palahniuk
(Choke, 2001)
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
People are always spray the air with their moods. Their car stereos, broadcasting their grief or joy or anger all over the neighborhood.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in details.
Our footsteps echo against the concrete floor. The steel roof hums with rain. And she says, 'Don't you feel, somehow, buried in history?
Getting fired... is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
