Chuck Palahniuk
133 quotes
Biography
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
"In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor."
"If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning."
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
"I don't want to die without any scars."
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
"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 know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."
"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. 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."
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
"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?"
"You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
"The things you used to own, now they own you."
"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."
"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."
"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you."
"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."
"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."
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
"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."