Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 7

Art never comes from happiness.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

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

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

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

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

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.

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

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

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

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

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

Penny wanted this kind of attention from the world. She wanted people everywhere to know her name and to love her. There, she'd admitted it aloud. But she couldn't do anything that would justify such massive public acclaim. She just needed a mentor, a teacher, someone to discover her.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

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.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.