Top 25 Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk of 953 - Page 25

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

Reflection, Shadow, Illusion

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.47, Random House

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

Chuck Palahniuk

Jobs, Fighting, Shopping

"Fictional character: Tyler Durden". "Fight Club", www.imdb.com. 1999.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

Chuck Palahniuk

World, Cradle, Traps

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

Chuck Palahniuk

Real, Mistake, Discovery

"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

Chuck Palahniuk

Children, Father, Character

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

Chuck Palahniuk

Girl, Worst Case Scenario, Cases

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

Chuck Palahniuk

Procrastination, Way, Reincarnation

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Artist, Ideas, Effort

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love You, Risk, Live By

Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

Chuck Palahniuk

School, Fighting, Oregon

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Chuck Palahniuk

Real, Sleep, Insomnia

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Chuck Palahniuk

Lying, Fall, Tree

Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

Chuck Palahniuk

Writing, People, Fax

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

Chuck Palahniuk

Cake, Laughing, Would Be

Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

Chuck Palahniuk

Feelings, Skins, Apathy

Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

Chuck Palahniuk

Blind, Stealing, Photograph

Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.99, Anchor

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

Chuck Palahniuk

Writing, Looks, Retrospect

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

Chuck Palahniuk

Baby, Kidnapped

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

Chuck Palahniuk

Roots, Blue, Paper

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

Chuck Palahniuk

Beautiful, Beach, Rain

"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Today, Sun, One Of Those Days

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

Chuck Palahniuk

People, Different, Rant

"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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

Hurt, Secret, Trust Me

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.127, Random House