Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about time

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

“You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.”

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.”

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.”

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”

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

“Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.”

“After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life”

“You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.”