Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor Quotes
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.