Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea... That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That if someday you were caught, exposed, and revealed enough, then you'd never be able to hide again. There'd be no difference between your public and your private lives. That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing.

If you lived long enough, couldn't you watch yourself be born? Couldn't you raise yourself? Be your own old man?.

Nos resulta imposible imaginar el pasado. El pasado, el futuro, la vida en otros planetas, todo son extensiones, proyecciones de la vida tal como la conocemos.

Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction...

y estamos sin control ni salvación ni dirección ni escapatoria, y estamos muertos.

Por favor, enséñenme una sola cosa en el mundo que sea lo que parece.

Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?

Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Some stories, Mr. Whittier would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody.

Personas que conozco y que solían llevarse pornografía al cuarto de baño, ahora se llevan el catálogo de muebles de IKEA.

Descubre qué es aquello que más miedo te da, y vete a vivir allí.

Querría morirme en este mismo instante. No soy nada comparado con Tyler. Estoy desamparado.

We always do this, Mr. Whittier says. For the same reason our children's children's children's children will always have war and famine and disease. Because we love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit it.

It amounted to a pornography of being right. No orgasm would be as satisfying as proving everyone else wrong.

Cuando no sabemos a quién odiar, nos odiamos a nosotros mismos.

Soy un estúpido y todo cuanto hago es desear y necesitar cosas.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't.

She's not Italian in any way you'd notice. No garlic smell or big armpit hair. She came here to attend medical school. Frigging medical school. In Iowa. The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It's not the worst thing that could happen.

he wanted to be happy the way a dog is happy.

Why I do this is to put adventure back into people's lives. Why I do this is to create heroes. Put people to the test.

No hagas lo que quieres. Haz lo que no quieres. Haz lo que te han enseñado a no querer. Es lo contrario de perseguir la felicidad. Haz las cosas que te dan más miedo.

The faster the dead could be honored, the faster they could be forgotten.