Chuck Palahniuk Quotes page 4

“I tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil”

Source: Choke

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”

Source: Fight Club

“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”

Source: Fight Club

“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”

Source: Fight Club

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”

“I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.”

Source: Choke

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

Source: Fight Club

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

Source: Haunted (2005)

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”

“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.”

Source: Diary

Chuck Palahniuk Snuff

Source: Snuff

“I am Jack's smirking revenge.”

“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”

Source: Fight Club

“We just had a near-life experience!”

Variant: No, I say, it's fine.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Just great, I say. Really.
Source: Fight Club

“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”

Variant: We just had a near-life experience
Source: Fight Club

“What would Tyler Durden do?”

Source: Fight Club

“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”

Source: Fight Club

“Maybe we should always assume the worst.”

Source: Haunted (2005)

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

Source: Fight Club

“You always kill the one you love.”

Source: Choke

“I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.”

Source: Fight Club

“More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.”

Source: Stranger than Fiction

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

Source: Choke

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“Sorry, mom.
Sorry, God.”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?”

“You have to keep recycling yourself.”

Source: Fight Club

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”

Source: Diary

“Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?”

Source: Invisible Monsters

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”

Source: Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”

“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”

Source: Haunted

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

Source: Invisible Monsters

“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”

Source: Fight Club

“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”

Source: Choke

“Self improvement is masturbation…”

Source: Diary

“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”

Source: Fight Club

“you're doomed at being you.”

Source: Diary

“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”

Source: Diary

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

“Skinny guys fight till they're burger.”

Source: Haunted (2005)

“Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead.
Probably that goes for anybody in the world.”

Source: Fight Club

“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“At this rate, we'll never get to the future.”

“For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

Variant: What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
Source: Diary

“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."
The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”

Source: Choke