“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
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.”
GodAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
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.”
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.”
Future“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
God“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”
Change“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
Happiness“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Power“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Great“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
Education“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”
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.”
Love“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
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.”
God“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
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.”
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.”
Life