Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

38 quotes

Few American novelists have been quoted as widely as Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962), whose insights reach well beyond their original context. Chuck Palahniuk's observations on Time are as sharp as their thoughts on God, revealing genuine breadth of mind. With 54 quotes in our library, Chuck Palahniuk is among the most well-represented voices here, with thoughts on Time, God, Best, Relationship, and Great. One standout: "When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?"

“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.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

God

All Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Time

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Future

“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.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Best

“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.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Future

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

God

“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Change

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness

“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Power

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Great

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Education

“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

God

“I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Love

“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Best

“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Good

“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.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

God

“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

God

“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Politics

“I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Great

“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Life