Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Burnt Tongues

“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It’s no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time”
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“Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“The truth is that all this was just part of the suicide process. Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
If a tress falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn’t it just lie there and rot?
And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would He be in Heaven This wasn’t a question of whether I was going to kill myself. This, this effort, this money and time, the writing team, the drugs, the diet, the agent, the flights of stairs going up to nowhere, all this was so I could off myself with everyone’s full attention.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living.
But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Sahip olduğun her şey, bir gün kaybedeceğin şeylerden sadece bir tanesidir.”
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“Нека никога не бъда завършен.
Нека никога не бъда доволен.
Нека никога не бъда съвършен.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“Ако не знаеш какво искаш - каза портиерът, - накрая ти се натрупват сума ти неща, дето не ги искаш.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Es gracioso que la belleza del arte tenga mucho más que ver con el marco que con la obra de arte en sí misma.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“Ve eğer İsa uyku hapları yutup, bir banyonun zemininde tek başına ölseydi, cennete gider miydi?”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Bu ömür boyu sahip olduğum altı yüz kırk birinci balık. Tanrı'nın yarattığı başka bir canlıya bakmayı ve sevmeyi öğrenmem için ailem yıllar önce ilk balığımı almıştı. Sahip olduğum altı yüz kırk balıktan sonra öğrendiğim tek şey, insanın sevdiği her şeyin bir gün öleceği oldu. O özel kişiyle karşılaştığın ilk anda, onun bir gün ölüp toprağın altına gireceğine emin olabilirsin...
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Gerçek, parlayıp ışık saçmaz.
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Öyle sıkıcı işler vardı ki, çalışmamak için insan kendini sakat bırakabilirdi.
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Zamanın sınırlı olduğu, kanunlar ve emirlerle dolu ve mülkiyete dayalı bu dünyada insanların yaşayabilecekleri tek gerçek macera uyuşturucu.
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Birinin zayıf olduğunu hayal etmek, onun güçlü olduğuna inanmaktan çok daha kolay.
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― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Uno empieza con las pajas y llega a las orgías. Uno fuma un poco de hierba y acaba metiéndose caballo. Es esta cultura nuestra de lo más grande, lo más fuerte, lo más rápido y lo mejor. La palabra clave es progresar.
En América, si tu adicción no se renueva y mejora constantemente, eres un perdedor.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“Ако те хване шубето, преди да си ударил дъното - каза Тайлър, - никога няма да успееш.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Само в гибелта можем да възкръснем.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Едва когато си загубил всичко - казва Тайлър, - си свободен да вършиш всичко.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Personas que conozco y que solían llevarse pornografía al cuarto de baño, ahora se llevan el catálogo de muebles de IKEA.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
Here's my passive aggression in action.
My idea is to make ugly work in my favor. Establish a low baseline for contrast with my later on. Before and After. The frog and the prince.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Looking good is not part of the big plan. My plan is to look like untapped potential. The look I'm going for is natural. Real.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth. You have a God-given knack for committing a terrible sin. It's your calling. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Men are so often made to feel inadequate and stupid for having feelings and problems and expressing their doubts and fears. Fight Club was the pressure cooker that lanced the boil of the pent-up existential crisis in masculinity that continues even more so to this day.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I am Joe's Grinding Teeth.
I am Joe's Inflamed Flaring Nostrils.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club