Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about life

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“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

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

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“You are permanent, but this life is not," Mr. Whittier would say. "You don't expect to visit an amusement park, then stay forever.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 6

“The way you can go to Paris or Beijing, Oyster says, and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological equivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra mussels. Water hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings. The local natives, anything unique gets squeezed out.. He says, "We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time."”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 19

“It simply makes sense that I should miss my parents more than they miss me, especially when you consider that they only loved me for thirteen years while I loved them my entire life.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Damned (2011)

“Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value. Imagine traveling the world until you're bored with every square inch. Imagine your emotions, your loves and hates and rivalries and victories, played out again and again until life is nothing more than a melo-dramatic soap opera. Until you regard the birth and death of other people with no more emotion than the wilted cut flowers you throw away.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“All my friends with PalmPilots and cell phones, they’re always calling themselves and leaving reminders to themselves about what’s about to happen. We leave Post-it notes for ourselves. We go to that shop in the mall, the one where they engrave whatever shit you want on a silver-plated box or a fountain pen, and we get a reminder for every special event that life goes by too fast for us to remember. We buy those picture frames where you record a message on a sound chip. We videotape everything! Oh, and now there’s those digital cameras, so we can all email around our photos — this century’s equivalent of the boring vacation slide show. We organize and reorganize. We record and archive.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)