Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. Im an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

No matter how careful you are, theres going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didnt experience it all. Theres that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you shouldve been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. Thats how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Every last minute of my life has been preordained and Im sick and tired of it.How this feels is Im just another task in Gods daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages....The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal waves, Gods got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, Gods daily planner has me finished.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Anymore, no ones mind is their own.

We just had a near-life experience!

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Dont participate.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Skinny guys fight till theyre burger.

My point is, that if Im honest, my life is all about me.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. Thats the only lasting thing you can create.