Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about people (page 3)

“Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”