Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

The lucky ones are just born dead.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

Art never comes from happiness.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

Suicide is very contagious.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

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.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

I am nothing, and not even that.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.