Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about people

Chuck Palahniuk is American novelist, essayist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
Chuck Palahniuk: 1110 quotes38 likes

“You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. These people with dead children, you want to tell them, go ahead. Blame yourself. There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Phoenix

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian (2002-10-30)

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Variant: People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Source: Diary

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

“Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Doomed

Source: Doomed

“you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters