“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
Good
“It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.”
FunnyAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“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“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“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“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.”
History“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
Time“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Change“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“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
Education“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Great“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.”
Alone“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Power“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”
Change“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Alone“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“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 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“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
Happiness