Chuck Palahniuk quotes

„Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk

„We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 20, Cassandra, Another story by Mrs. Clarke
Source: Invisible Monsters

„Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Haunted

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Variant: Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 11, Ritual

„I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Variant: I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Source: Invisible Monsters

„Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

„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, book Diary

Source: Diary

„The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

„All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Diary

Source: Diary

„What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Choke

Source: Choke

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

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

„You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Survivor

Source: Survivor

„You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

„When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

„You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Source: 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, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

„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.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Survivor

Source: Survivor

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

—  Chuck Palahniuk

„Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Variant: Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
Source: Fight Club