Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 3

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

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

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

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

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

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

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

I don't want to die without any scars.

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?