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Quotes About Adversity

Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything." What I'm feeling
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Lo mejor que nos podría ocurrir, es que nos despidieran. De esa forma dejaríamos de intentar ir tirando y haríamos algo de provecho con nuestras vidas.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you're sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Street gangs were really young men raised without fathers, just trying to help one another become men.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flatlined.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you're 24 you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every age brought its specific terror. As a boy, Felix had lain awake, afraid the house would burn down. As a youth, he'd dreaded bullies. Later, it was conscription into the army. Or the fear of not learning a trade. Or never finding a wife. After school, his career. After his son was born, he feared everything. His secret dream was to face down such a horror that it would leave him inoculated. He'd never suffer fear of anything, ever again. These
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it does around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us - the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse - why that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ciò che vi blocca qui dentro è ciò che blocca l'intera vostra vita. L'aria sarà sempre troppo carica di qualcosa. Il vostro corpo sempre troppo indolenzito o stanco. Vostro padre, sempre troppo ubriaco. Vostra moglie sempre troppo fredda. Avrete sempre una qualche scusa per non vivere la vostra vita.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Çarp?ima partisi, depresyonunuzu elektroÅŸokla tedavi etmek gibi deÄŸil midir?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's prostate. I get cancer. I kill Jack.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom you'll never really succeed. Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Why I do this is to create heroes. Put people to the test.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Herhangi bir ÅŸey yaratma riskini göze alamad???m için ömrüm boyunca her ÅŸeye sald?rd?m...
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say. It's nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of the dealer show room in 1955, I always think, what a waste.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Non sai mai quanto sei forte, finché essere forte è l'unica scelta che hai.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tal vez la autosuperación no se la respuesta. [...] Tal vez la autodestrucción sea la respuesta.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Solo después del desastre podemos resucitar.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Some stories, Mr. Whittier would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up.
~ Chuck Palahniuk