Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person..

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Make me into anything, but just love me.. Chuck Palahniuk

Make me into anything, but just love me.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never,

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!. Chuck Palahniuk

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.. Chuck Palahniuk

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past..

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.. Chuck Palahniuk

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.. Chuck

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces..

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"

I say, goodnight.

The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'

Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

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

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

We just had a near-life experience!

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.

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

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

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

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

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

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

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 trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

I don't want to die without any scars.

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?

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

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

The lucky ones are just born dead.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

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.

Believe in me and you shall die, forever.

The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

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

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

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

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.

For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.

..statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

Hayati dogru duzgun yasamak icin egitilmisiz biz. Hata yapmamak icin. Ne kadar buyuk bir hata yaparsam, o kadar kurtulma ve gercek bir hayat yasama sansim olacagini fark ettim.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else.
You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom

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

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.

How she looks is watered-down.
How she looks is disappearing.
How she looks is erased.
"Don't stress", she says. "This is just me not wearing any makeup.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

Sex pretty much cures everything.

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

A woman eats to feed her pussy." Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

So you just walk home.

Godless, 'we had no war.'
Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Art never comes from happiness.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

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

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

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

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

Penny wanted this kind of attention from the world. She wanted people everywhere to know her name and to love her. There, she'd admitted it aloud. But she couldn't do anything that would justify such massive public acclaim. She just needed a mentor, a teacher, someone to discover her.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.

No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you’d been reading.

The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?

There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up.

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.

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

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

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

The future is just wasted on some people.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W.

Let the wind erase it.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist.

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