Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

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.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

The answer is there is no answer.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.