Ella > Ella's Quotes

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“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?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Not the why but the what.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: and Through The Looking Glass

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor