“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”
Truth
“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
PoliticsAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.”
Time“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Alone“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.”
Hope“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God“Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.”
Best“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
Future“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
Happiness“I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.”
Relationship“Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?”
Freedom“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Time“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”
Time“I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.”
God“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
Politics“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”
Alone“You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.”
Best“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Great“I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.”
Romantic“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness“My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.”
Future