Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you chose to suffer.”

“Anything you can acquire is only another thing you’ll lose.”

“Unless everything can get worse, it won’t get any better.”

“A girl calls and asks, “Does it hurt very much to die?”Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

“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.”

“You can tell people the truth, but they’ll never believe you until the event. Until it’s too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”

“You could stab a knife right through my heart and you’d be too late.”

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

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

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.

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

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.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, its just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself youre loving somebody when youre just using them. This only looks like love.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself youre loving somebody when youre just using them. This only looks like love.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

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

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