Chuck Palahniuk Quotes about Giving Up

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Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving Up, Addiction, Helping

"Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Giving Up, Past

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

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving Up, Addiction, Tough

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.21, Random House

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving Up, Fall, Sleep

Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving Up, Book, White

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving Up, Hate, Television Commercials

"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

Chuck Palahniuk

Art, Giving Up, Clever