Michelle > Michelle's Quotes

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

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead.
You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I am Jack's smirking revenge.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“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

“HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke