Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely devastated.
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
People who have no established purpose in life are the most dangerous.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Change is often the only proof that we’re alive.
We are not our jobs, we are not our bank accounts, we are not the contents of our wallets.
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t.
If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.
People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.
The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
I want to have no material possessions. I only want to own the things I need to live. And I want to have a minimum of those.
We all have the power to choose who and what we allow into our lives.
The world is waiting for people who aren’t afraid of losing everything.
People don’t get what they deserve. They just get what they get.
We’re all in pain. That’s the human condition.
The goal is not to live forever, but to create something that will.
We can spend every moment of our lives doubting the future, or we can be strong enough to lend our vitality to the moment.
It’s funny how the memory works, especially when you’ve buried so much of your past.
You had to give yourself up to get someone to stick to you.
All the effort people put into deciding how they appear instead of who they are.
The sweetest thing in the world isn’t an achievement, but something you didn’t do.
Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
We’re consumers. We are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession.
We’re all wearing masks, and the time comes when we can no longer remove them without removing our skin.
The only time you’re allowed to be antisocial is when you’re a teenager.
Self-improvement is masturbation.
There is an ancient tribal saying that says whenever you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointed back at you.
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
The things you used to own, now they own you.
Getting used to the fact that no matter how much you care, some people just don’t.
You can’t lose hope when it’s hopeless. You gotta hope more, then put your fingers in your ears and go, ‘Blah! Blah! Blah! Blah!’
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Reality means you live until you die, the real truth is nobody wants reality.
Your past is just a story, and once you realize this, it has no power over you.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.
The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your passions and let them be the guiding force in your life.
People don’t want a relationship that is truly equal. They want the appearance of a relationship that is equal.
Your past is just a story. It has no power over you.
Find ways to appreciate what you have instead of always striving for more.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.