Chuck Palahniuk Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

48 Famous Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
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“Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.”
Life Quotes
“Your heart is my piñata.”
Love Quotes
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.”
Addiction Quotes
“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”
Apathy Quotes
“You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.”
Apathy Quotes
“Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.”
Approval Quotes
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Birth Quotes
““Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.””
Chaos Quotes
“On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.”
Clouds Quotes
“College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink”
College Quotes
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
Death Quotes
“Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”
Desperation Quotes
“Only after disaster can we be ressurected.”
Disaster Quotes
“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.”
Disaster Quotes
“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”
Emotion Quotes
“Funerals are all abstract ceremony.”
Funerals Quotes
“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
Hate Quotes
“True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.”
Hurt Quotes
“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
Identity Quotes
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Immortality Quotes
“The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.”
Immortality Quotes
“And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.”
Inaction Quotes
“Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.”
Las vegas Quotes
“The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.”
Law Quotes
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Materialism Quotes