Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. C
  4. Chuck Palahniuk
  5. Life

Chuck Palahniuk Quotes about Life

All Chuck Palahniuk Quotes Addiction Adventure Age Art Brandy Bullshit Cancer Caring Change Chaos Character Children Choices Church College Community Consumerism Crash Creativity Culture Dancing Death Drama Dying Effort Ego Energy Evil Exercise Expectations Failing Falling In Love Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Freedom Fun Funeral Future Giving Giving Up Growing Up Happiness Hate Heart Heaven Hell Home Horror House Humanity Hurt Husband Identity Ignorance Imagination Insomnia Inspirational Inspiring Joy Kissing Language Life quotes Lifetime Literature Live Life Love Lying Makeup Memories Metaphor Mom Moon Pain Past Quality Quitting Reading Reality Recycling Rejection Responsibility Revenge Risk Romance Running Sadness School Selling Silence Singing Skins Sleep Soul Suffering Talent Today Tragedy Training Travel Truth Values Waiting Wall War Wisdom Worry Writing
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Hard Times, Past

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

Chuck Palahniuk
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Literature, Want

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Laughing, Inspire
Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, People, Expectations
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.6, Random House

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love, Life, Dream
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

The answer is there is no answer.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Answers, Literature

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk
Inspirational, Life, Moments
"First rule of Fight Club: no one talks about the quality of the writing" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2016.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Fall, Perfect
Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

I don't want to die without any scars.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Death, Want
Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Optimistic, Bored
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Death, Suicide
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Home, Careers
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Hate, Real
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Inspire, Waste

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

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

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Reality, What If
"Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

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

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

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
Life, Pain, Fall
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 3, 2005.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Heart, Practice
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.3, Random House

That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Sarcastic, Dream
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.52, Random House

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Giving, Narrators

You May Also Like: