Quotes

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Masochism is a valuable job skill.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?” Chuck Palahniuk

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” Chuck Palahniuk

“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.” Chuck Palahniuk

“It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.” Chuck Palahniuk

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.” Chuck Palahniuk

“You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.” Chuck Palahniuk

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

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.” Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

“The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.” Chuck Palahniuk

“What we don't understand we can make mean anything.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.” Chuck Palahniuk

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

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.” Chuck Palahniuk

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.” Chuck Palahniuk

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?” Chuck Palahniuk