Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

The truth is I'm sorry.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

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.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.

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

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

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

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

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

Write the book you want to read.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.