Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

American - Novelist Born: February 21, 1962

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Change, Home, Relationship, Job

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Depression, Great, War, Spiritual, Our

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahniuk

People, Thought, You, Legend, Die, Ideas

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Chuck Palahniuk

Eye, Behavior, Say, Enlightenment, Fact

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Look, Picture, Big Picture, Big, Trick

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. - Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness, True Happiness, True, Way

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Chuck Palahniuk

Gun, Smiles, Everyone, Invisible, Head

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, Step, Think, You, Pool, Back

I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting.

Chuck Palahniuk

Work, Night, Cooking, People, Support

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. - Chuck Palahniuk

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk

You, Fly, Fall, Higher, Lower

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If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fear, You, Things, Resolution, Flee

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Chuck Palahniuk

Mother, Son, Caring, Book, My Own, Dying

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Eyes, Moment, People, You, Meeting, Meet

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Chuck Palahniuk

You, Sometimes, Things, Get, Something

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Chuck Palahniuk

Me, Generation, Kind, Sarcastic, Because

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

People, Problems, Nobody, Want, Scary

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Best, You, Hands, Never, See, Need

I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Myself, Stress, Live, Nice, Enough

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

Chuck Palahniuk

Success, Great, Parents, Think, You, Job

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

Chuck Palahniuk

God, Pet, Down, Just, Toilet, Maybe

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

Family, Father, Food, Train, Year, Go

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Chuck Palahniuk

Story, Everything, Get, Minds, Our, Got

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Chuck Palahniuk

Music, Technology, Video Games, Writing

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.

Chuck Palahniuk

Family, Believe, Crazy, You, Grandfather

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

Chuck Palahniuk

People, World, Reality, Way, Create, Our

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, Artist, Living, Skills, Afraid

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