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Quotes About Loss

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You always kill the one you love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Its only after you've lost everything, Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's broken heart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Sahip olduÄŸun her ÅŸey, bir gün kaybedeceÄŸin ÅŸeylerden sadece bir tanesidir.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is you can be or­phaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. And the se­cret is, this will hurt less and less each time un­til you can't feel a thing.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. And it does work both ways.
~ Chuck Palahniuk