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Quotes About Change

Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing is static.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Listen up. Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.' Sometimes Rant said, 'You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.' If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kill me if I ever look that Bad . . . Dude, what are you saying? . . . On the TV? That is you, dude. From like five years ago.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You are permanent, but this life is not.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Our way of get­ting nos­tal­gic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all be­cause we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, rein­vent our­selves. Adapt.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Since change is con­stant, you won­der if peo­ple crave death be­cause it's the on­ly way they can get any­thing re­al­ly fin­ished.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Now is the autumn of our ennui.
~ Chuck Palahniuk