Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk

Give, Coping, Mechanism

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

Happen, Leaving, Moment

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone, Gun, Head

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

Work, Good, Home

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Before, Risk

I just don't want to die without a few scars.
Chuck Palahniuk

Die, Few, Scars

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Chuck Palahniuk

Chicken, Sticking, Feathers

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.
Chuck Palahniuk

Good, Moving, Chaos

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

Romantic, Through, Trying

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

Funny, Women, Forget

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Matter, Blood

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
Chuck Palahniuk

Die, Until, Realize

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk

Moment, Effort, Worth

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
Chuck Palahniuk

Beautiful, Invisible

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk

Truth, Live, Reality

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, Death, Since

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, Game, Left

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
Chuck Palahniuk

Between, Difference, Press

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk

Everything, Ourselves, Maybe

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Mean, Understand

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Forget, Trying

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Saying, Both

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk

Everything, Big, Picture

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
Chuck Palahniuk

Feelings, Living, Others

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Person, Different

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Nationality: American

Born: February 21, 1961

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