Chuck Palahniuk, Choke Quotes

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Art never comes from happiness.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

The lucky ones are just born dead.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

Ignorance was bliss.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose

Art never comes from happiness

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.