Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Ignorance was bliss.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

... the first step to eternal live is you have to die.

Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

If you don't know what you want, " the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

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.

Give me lust, baby.Flash.Give me malice.Flash.Give me detached existentialist ennui.Flash.Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.Flash.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.