Source: Survivor: A Novel
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Famous Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.”
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
Source: Survivor: A Novel
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“Every woman is just a different kind of problem.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
Source: Invisible Monsters
“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“Masochism is a valuable job skill.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
Source: Fight Club
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”
Source: Fight Club
“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”
“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”
“I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”
Source: Lullaby
“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
Source: You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection
“The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
Source: Survivor: A Novel
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
Source: Fight Club
“There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.”