Chuck Palahniuk Quotes


79 quotes:

"Having nothing to lose is the new wealth."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Wealth Quotes
"Prepare...to evacuate soul."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Soul Quotes
"Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Self Quotes
"Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Secrets Quotes
"This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Parents Quotes
"Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?"
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Life Quotes
"People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Life Quotes
"The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Laughter Quotes
"Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Heaven Quotes
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Hate Quotes
"Language was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. People can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. We don't live in the real world anymore, we live in a world of symbols."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Glory Quotes
"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Future Quotes
"It’s funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Funny Quotes
"If you love something, set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes..."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Funny Quotes
"Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Freedom Quotes
"Losing all hope is freedom"
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Freedom Quotes
"In most hospitals, paging Nurse Flamingo means a fire. Dr. Blaze means a fire. Dr. Green means a suicide. Dr. Blue means somebody stopped breathing. Nothing is straight forward anymore. In a grocery store, paging Mr. Cash is a call for an armed security guard. Paging "Freight check to Women's Clothing" means somebody is shoplifting in that department. Other stores page a fake woman named Sheila. "Sheila to the front" means somebody is shoplifting in the front of the store. Mr. Cash and Sheila and Nurse Flamingo are always bad news. It's what people say when they don't want you to hear the truth."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Fire Quotes
"You can buy about four hundred tiny fashion separates that mix and match to create three tasteful outfits. In that way, the doll is incredibly lifelike. Chilling, even."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Fashion Quotes
"You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement (C).A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall all the cars and no one gets hurt.If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall."
Author: Palahniuk Quotes Category: Failure Quotes

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