Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
You gain power by pretending to be weak.
- Chuck Palahniuk
All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.
- Chuck Palahniuk
What we don’t understand we can make mean anything.
- Chuck Palahniuk
It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.
- Chuck Palahniuk
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
- Chuck Palahniuk
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
― Chuck Palahniuk
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
― Chuck Palahniuk
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
― Chuck Palahniuk
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
- Chuck Palahniuk
It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.
- Chuck Palahniuk
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
― Chuck Palahniuk
Reality means you live until you die…the real truth is nobody wants reality.
- Chuck Palahniuk
It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
- Chuck Palahniuk