Chuck Palahniuk Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Invisible Monsters

2. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. Invisible Monsters

3. Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Choke

4. Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please? Invisible Monsters

5. Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine. Survivor

6. If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin. Fight Club

7. If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

8. It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

9. It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth. Doomed

10. 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. Diary

11. Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. Diary

12. Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. Choke

13. Make me into anything, but just love me. Invisible Monsters

14. Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead. Choke

15. Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale? Rant

16. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. Lullaby

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

18. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

19. Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship. Fight Club

20. Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. Haunted

21. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. Survivor

22. some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. Choke

23. Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken! Fight Club

24. The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere. Rant

25. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. Invisible Monsters

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

27. 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.

28. The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

29. The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. Choke

30. The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. Lullaby