Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk, page 2

Chuck Palahniuk - american novelist

Was born on 21 feb 1962.

Origin country: United States

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, bad luck, bad

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about love, blood

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, power, spirit

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression, our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about depression, war

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about life, problems, people

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about suffering, risk, love, people

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about communication, being, people

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about advice, reality, truth, real estate, death

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about miracle, change, death, people

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about present, past

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, things

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about things, love

The answer is there is no answer.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about love, fall

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, press

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

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about happiness, risk, being

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, forgetness

We all die, the goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about death, purpose

We are not special, we are not crap or trash, either. We just are, we just are, and what happens just happens.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, stupidity