Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

People dont want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

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

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

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

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you dont throw yourself down the stairs, thats a choice. Every time you dont crash your car, you reenlist.

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

Your heart is my pinata.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

Love is bullsh... Emotion is bullsh... I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.

If you love something, set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes...

You ache for the touch of another, But you don't have a now-current lover