Quotes

“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” Blaise Pascal

“Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.” Blaise Pascal

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” Blaise Pascal

“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.” Blaise Pascal

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” Blaise Pascal

“The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.” Blaise Pascal

“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.” Blaise Pascal

“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.” Blaise Pascal

“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.” Blaise Pascal

“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.” Chuck Palahniuk

“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.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.” Chuck Palahniuk

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

“If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.” Chuck Palahniuk

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” Chuck Palahniuk

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” Chuck Palahniuk

“I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.” Chuck Palahniuk

“If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.” Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

“More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.” Chuck Palahniuk

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

“I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.” Chuck Palahniuk

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

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.” Chuck Palahniuk

“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

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?” Chuck Palahniuk

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

“Every woman is just a different kind of problem.” Chuck Palahniuk