Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about time

Chuck Palahniuk is American novelist, essayist. Explore interesting quotes on time.
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“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

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

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: ... and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Source: Fight Club

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Variant: Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. 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.
Source: Survivor

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

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

Chuck Palahniuk Snuff

Source: Snuff

“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”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted