More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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

The answer is there is no answer.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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

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

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Chuck Palahniuk