Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

"The things you own end up owning you."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Past quotes.

"People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Suffering quotes.

"The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Inspirational quotes.

"Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left."
-Chuck Palahniuk

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

"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Children quotes.

"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Birth quotes.

"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"
-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?"
-Chuck Palahniuk in Meaning quotes.

"Your heart is my piñata."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Love quotes.

"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."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Hysteria is only possible with an audience."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
-Chuck Palahniuk in God quotes.

"The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Problems quotes.

"It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Which is worse: Hell or nothing?"
-Chuck Palahniuk in Hell quotes.

"When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Problems quotes.

"If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?"
-Chuck Palahniuk

"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
-Chuck Palahniuk in Hate quotes.

"On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Who you are moment to moment is just a story."
-Chuck Palahniuk