Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Stendhal syndrome, Angel says, is a medical term. It's when a painting, or any form of art, is so beautiful it overwhelms the viewer. It's a form of shock. When Stendhal toured the Church of Santa Croce in Florence in 1817, he reported almost fainting from joy. People feel rapid heart palpitations. They get dizzy. Looking at great art makes you forget your own name, forget even where you're at. It can bring on depression and physical exhaustion. Amnesia. Panic. Heart attack. Collapse.

Il mondo" dice Brandy "è la tua culla e la tua trappola.

We dance past states of saints in somebody else's religion. To m they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

Think of a story as a stream of information. At best it's an ever-changing series of rhythms. Now think of yourself, the writer, as a DJ mixing tracks.

Maybe what I liked most about dancing is the rules. In a world where anything goes, here are solid arbitrary rules.

That's why the bran muffins and the colonoscopies.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again.

I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time.

There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

Es muy duro olvidar el dolor, pero es más duro todavía recordar la dulzura. La felicidad no nos deja cicatrices. Apenas aprendemos nada de la paz.

If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance.

These days, people aren't going to fill stadiums to get preached at by somebody who isn't beautiful.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

There's no escaping from constant escape.

All of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better. We've spent so much time judging what other people have created that we've created very, very little of our own.

Using all three forms of communication creates a natural, conversational style. Description combined with occasional instruction, and punctuated with sound effects or exclamations: It's how people talk.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flatlined.

Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose.

Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.

The first rule of Flunk Klub, Aardvark said, is you don't talk about Flunk Klub.

People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden.

Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization?

Too much estrogen, and you get bitch tits.

if history remembered him as an idiot, well, he was only one among billions of people. History could spare one man. All men are doomed to spend most of their existence among the dead.