17 Brilliant Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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


2.  “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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


3.  “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


4.  “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


5.  “It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


6.  “Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


7.  “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


8.  “Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


9.  “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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


10.  “Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk



11.  “We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”
― Chuck Palahniuk



12.  “We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


13.  “Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”
― Chuck Palahniuk


14.  “By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk



15.  “Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”
― Chuck Palahniuk



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



17.  “Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.”
― Chuck Palahniuk