Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
-Chuck Palahniuk

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
-Chuck Palahniuk

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
-Chuck Palahniuk

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

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
-Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
-Chuck Palahniuk

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
-Chuck Palahniuk

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

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
-Chuck Palahniuk

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

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
-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

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
-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

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