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“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― Paul Bowles

“It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to
get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“So if you think this is going to save you
If you think anything is going to save you
Please consider this your final warning”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Because supposedly, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
And we want all that drama to prepare us for the test of facing death, someday”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he’ll come and sit beside a
grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense.
Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality
that—he was right".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he’ll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense.
Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that—he was right".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“If you love something, set it free. Just don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“-So our God, Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

-An almighty God this insecure?

-This is the God we’re supposed to worship?"

From: Haunted”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“-So our God, Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

-An almighty God this insecure?

-This is the God we’re supposed to worship?"
From: Haunted”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“A negative guarantee. The opposite of an advertisement. To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can’t, gripe. Not journalism. Not objective. Not reporting, but judging.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Every breath you take is because something has
died. Something or someone lived and died so you could have this life. This mountain of dead, they lift you into daylight.

“Will the effort and energy and momentum of their lives
. . .”

How will it find you? How will you enjoy their gift?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Every breath you take is because something has died. Something or someone lived and died so you could have this life. This mountain of dead, they lift you into daylight.

“Will the effort and energy and momentum of their lives
. . .”

How will it find you? How will you enjoy their gift?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Leather shoes and fried chicken and dead soldiers are only a tragedy if you waste their gift sitting in front of the television. Or stuck in traffic. Or stranded at some airport.

“How will you show all the creatures of history? How will you show their birth and work and death were worthwhile?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“We should forgive God . . . For making us too short. Fat. Poor.


We should forgive God our baldness. Our cystic fibrosis. Our juvenile leukemia. We should forgive God’s indifference, His leaving us behind: Us, God’s forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold.
God’s goldfish, ignored until we’re forced to eat our own shit off the bottom".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“After you find a bigger task to dread, the little chores will be a breeze. Here’s
another reason to have a devil on hand. It does make all the little demons more . . .
bearable".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“-So our God, Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

-An almighty God this insecure?

-This is the God we’re supposed to worship?”

From: Haunted”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“It never changes, he says. The other group he brought here, it ended this same way.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the
stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“It never changes, he says. The other group he brought here, it ended this same way.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“To fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives
fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories
resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary
unknown".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The only thing I know is everything you love will die, the first time you meet that
someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“We've failed in our ultimate sacrament. Our shame is for ourselves. Our disgust is for each other.
The survivors who still wear church costume do it to brag about their pain. Sackcloth and ashes.
They couldn't save themselves. They were weak. The rules are all gone, and it doesn't matter.
We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march upon us, wailing, and the purest children of God would have to deliver themselves unto the Lord by their own hand. The Deliverance”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“It's church doctrine that says I have to kill myself. They don't say it has to be a hurry-hurry
instant quick death.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“It does not matter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The truth is nothing new ever happens.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy
hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where
they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they
admire".”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Peo­ple are look­ing for how to put ev­ery­thing to­geth­er. They need a uni­fied field the­ory that com­bines glam­our and ho­li­ness, fash­ion and spir­itu­al­ity. Peo­ple need to rec­on­cile be­ing good and be­ing good-​look­ing.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God’s most selfish children would steal God’s greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death.

This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick.

Only God has the right to surprise His children with death.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor