Chuck Palahniuk Quotes page 9

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

“They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.”

“I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.”

Source: Choke

“Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.”

“No, none of us seem so very real.

We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other.

Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.”

Source: Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk book Tell-All

Source: Tell-All

“Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go”

“Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.”

Source: Fight Club

“She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.”

Variant: Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Source: Invisible Monsters

“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“The only thing that separates us from the animals… is we have pornography.”

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”

“It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.”

Source: Choke

Chuck Palahniuk book Doomed

Source: Doomed

“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.”

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”

Source: Fight Club

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”

Source: Choke

“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”

Source: Choke

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

“How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Variant: Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14

“Nothing is static.”

“Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.”

Source: Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Variant: Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.
Source: Diary

“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?”

“What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.”

Source: Survivor

“The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.”

Source: Survivor

“So if you think this is going to save you… If you think anything is going to save you… Please consider this your final warning.”

“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

Source: Choke

“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”

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

“Losing all hope was freedom.”

Source: Survivor

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”

Variant: This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Source: Fight Club

“It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.”

Source: Fight Club

“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

“No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.”

Source: Choke

“If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.”

Source: Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

“No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.”

Source: Choke

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)”

Variant: Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
Source: Choke

“My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.”

Variant: It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Source: Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

“She's so thin she's either dying or rich.”

Source: Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.”

“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a Book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.”

Source: Choke

“Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

“It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make”

Source: Fight Club

“You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.”

Source: Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.”