Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

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.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

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?

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.

Believe in me and you shall die, forever.

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.

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

Le stelle in cieloNon conoscono l'iraBla, bla, bla, fine

What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.

Art never comes from happiness

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

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

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.

I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo.""Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?

You had a near life experience.

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]