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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Total quotes: 82
“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Acceptance, Truth About Being Human, Contentment
“The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don’t participate.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Tagged: Live Advice
“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
Tagged: Pain, Trap, Stories We Tell Ourselves
“Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Human Nature, Silence
“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Story, Regret, Mistakes
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted: A Novel
Tagged: Save You, Relationships, Love
“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
Tagged: Pretentions, Mask, Impersonation
“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Tagged: Living, Fear, Anxiety, Life
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: disaster, Change, Failure, Redemption
“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Impression, Smile Quotes
“You can’t fool people into loving you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Tagged: Self love, Be yourself, Identity, Relationships
“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Hate, Self Hate, Relationships
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
“This was supposed to be a writer's retreat, it was supposed to be safe.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Tagged: first lines of books
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Loss, Failure, Freedom
“I was lost inside oblivion, dark and silent and complete...This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Hope, Hope Is Not Lost, losing hope was freedom, Freedom, Experience, Life
“Sometimes your best way to deal with shit...is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Dealing, Dealing With Life, Dealing With Big Problems, Life
“When you don’t share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Suffering, Approaching Problems, Empathy
“Recycling and speed-limits are bullshit. They’re like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Recycling, speed-limits, simile, Life
“Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer...Maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: self-improvement vs. self-destruction, self, Self Acceptance, self awareness, Life, Frustration
“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
Tagged: Risk, Love, Relationships
“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.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Love, Hate, Sensitive, asshole
“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
Tagged: love quotes, Dating, Heartbreak
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Love, Torture, Pain, Relationships
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Originality, Creativity, Individuality
“The unreal is more powerful than the real because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. ”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Illusion, Reality
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Happiness, Pain, Risk
“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?”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Death, Reincarnation
“Everything before now is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Stories, Self-Concept
“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Chaos, Freedom, Happiness, Pain
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
Tagged: Expectations, Happiness, Pain, Suffering, Heaven, Hell
“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted: A Novel
Tagged: real, honest, Love
“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Tagged: Human Condition, Person, Life
“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Rescue, Life, Hero
“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
Tagged: Hell, actions, Passiveness, Proactiveness
“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Stranger, déjà vu, familiar
“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Lust, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Pain, Love
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