Beth > Beth's Quotes

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“and i can't stand the idea of being alone.
i can't bear the thought of being free.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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

“Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!”
― Anais Nin

“Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
― Dorothy Parker

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
― George Carlin

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”
― Russell Brand

“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
― Marquis De Sade

“THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
― Anais Nin

“If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.”
― Anais Nin

“At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.”
― Rose Macauley

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid