Chuck Palahniuk Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Chuck Palahniuk quotes, Chuck Palahniuk sayings, and Chuck Palahniuk proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometime it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk
Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time. Chuck Palahniuk
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Chuck Palahniuk
Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere. Chuck Palahniuk
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. Chuck Palahniuk
Skinny guys fight till they're burger. Chuck Palahniuk
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. Chuck Palahniuk
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. Chuck Palahniuk
You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life. Chuck Palahniuk
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. Chuck Palahniuk
Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future. Chuck Palahniuk
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. Chuck Palahniuk
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine. Chuck Palahniuk
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense. Chuck Palahniuk
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. Chuck Palahniuk
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
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
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk
I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. Chuck Palahniuk
Las Vegas looks the way you would imagine heaven must look at night. Chuck Palahniuk
Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night. Chuck Palahniuk
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… Would you slow down? Or speed up? Chuck Palahniuk
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will Chuck Palahniuk
The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses. Chuck Palahniuk
My father worked for the train station, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the box cars. Chuck Palahniuk
My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year, we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. Chuck Palahniuk
Your heart is my piñata. Chuck Palahniuk
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. Chuck Palahniuk