Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, youll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, youll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.”

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldnt bother to torture you if she didnt. ”

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

“Its easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Its so hard to forget pain, but its even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“Its only in drugs or death well see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“Believe in me and you shall die, forever.”

“If you love something set it free, but dont be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

“Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.”

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second youre walking and talking, and the next second youre an object.”

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

“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?”

“Someday you will die, and until you know that, youre useless to me.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”