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30 Brutally Honest And All Too Real Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. 
Kirsten Corley
September 28, 2016
“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
“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Fear, inspiration, motivation, Embracing Fear
“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
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Loss, Failure, Freedom
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Happiness, Pain, Risk
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Pain, Love
“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Hate, Self-hatred, Self-Concept
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Tagged: Pain, Holding On, Moving On, Moving Forward, Self-Direction
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Being noticed
“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Power, Control, strength, Weakness
“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Tagged: Playing The Victim, Peace, Saving The World, Pain, Stories
“You can’t fool people into loving you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“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
“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Love, like, Connection, Friends
“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
“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Pain, Sacrifice, Love
“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
“You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Love, talking, Listening
“Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary: A Novel
Tagged: fake, pretending, Relationships
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted: A Novel
Tagged: Save You, Relationships, Love
“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
“You always kill the one you love.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating
“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
“The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Tagged: Truth, Honesty, Relationships
“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
“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All
Tagged: Good, Bad, Relationships
“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
“Love and life belongs to great risk.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Risk, Relationships