Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

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

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

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

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

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

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

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

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

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.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

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

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

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

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.