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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it’s the wrong place.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second, you're an object. I am nothing, and not even that.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“On a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
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