Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

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

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

What would Tyler Durden do?

If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.

I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.

You always kill the one you love.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.