quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

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

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”"
— Chuck Palahniuk

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

""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.""
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"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."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

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

"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you"
— Chuck Palahniuk

"The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"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. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

"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."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"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.
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— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish"
— Chuck Palahniuk

"If you're going to read this, don't bother."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

""I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.""
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)