Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.
Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.
Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.
Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.
I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.
Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.
