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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Total quotes: 125
“We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Tagged: Pain, Misery, Hard To Forget
“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Acceptance, Truth About Being Human, Contentment
“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything. I wish, just once, I could say: This, this is good enough.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Contentment, Satisfaction, strength, Perfectionist Problems
“The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don’t participate.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Tagged: Live Advice
“The world can be a lot bet­ter than we settle for. All you have to do is ask.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Tagged: Do Great Things, Positivity, Motivational
“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
Tagged: Privacy, Possibility, Thoughts, Mind
“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Future, Past, Change
“I wanted to give up the idea 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, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Control, Chaos
“That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Killing Love
“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, Haunted
Tagged: Pain, Trap, Stories We Tell Ourselves
“Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Human Nature, Silence
“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Story, Regret, Mistakes
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted: A Novel
Tagged: Save You, Relationships, Love
“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
Tagged: Pretentions, Mask, Impersonation
“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Tagged: Living, Fear, Anxiety, Life
“We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Tagged: explanation, statement
“I need to rebel against myself. I need to do what I most fear.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Tagged: Fear, Conquering Fear, Self-Discovery, Bravery, Courage
“The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Tagged: Truth, Honesty, Relationships
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: disaster, Change, Failure, Redemption
“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Impression, Smile Quotes
“You can’t fool people into loving you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Tagged: Self love, Be yourself, Identity, Relationships
“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Hate, Self Hate, Relationships
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Imperfection, self, Self & Identity, Life, perseverance
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Tagged: Pain, Holding On, Moving On, Moving Forward, Self-Direction
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
“This was supposed to be a writer's retreat, it was supposed to be safe.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Tagged: first lines of books
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Loss, Failure, Freedom
“I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
Tagged: Reinvent Yourself, Begin again, Hopeful, Optimism
“I was lost inside oblivion, dark and silent and complete...This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Hope, Hope Is Not Lost, losing hope was freedom, Freedom, Experience, Life
“Sometimes your best way to deal with shit...is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Dealing, Dealing With Life, Dealing With Big Problems, Life
“When you don’t share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Suffering, Approaching Problems, Empathy
“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Courage, strength, Weakness, Positive Attribute
“Recycling and speed-limits are bullshit. They’re like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: Recycling, speed-limits, simile, Life
“Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer...Maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
Tagged: self-improvement vs. self-destruction, self, Self Acceptance, self awareness, Life, Frustration
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Love, True Love, Loss, heart
“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
Tagged: Future, Past, Changes
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
“You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Love, talking, Listening
“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All
Tagged: Good, Bad, Relationships
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