Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 4

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.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

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.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

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.

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

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

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

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

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.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.