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“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Variant: It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
Source: Asfixia

“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Variant: 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.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 28

“Everyone's in their own personal coma.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
Source: Fight Club

“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Variant: No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
Source: Damned (2011)

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke