If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. Chuck Palahniuk darknightreality Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with? Chuck Palahniuk qualityenergypeople Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal. Chuck Palahniuk holocaustsurvivoranimal I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way. Chuck Palahniuk unpackingfunway It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. Chuck Palahniuk rejects-yourejectionsad I don't want to die without any scars. Chuck Palahniuk wantlifedeath Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial. Chuck Palahniuk denialescapingpast By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember. Chuck Palahniuk ageremember When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge. Chuck Palahniuk detailsrevengelong It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. Chuck Palahniuk drugdeath First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. Chuck Palahniuk parenttryinggiving The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero. Chuck Palahniuk governmentherokids Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people. Chuck Palahniuk smartrealpeople Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. Chuck Palahniuk surfingpracticetelevision When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. Chuck Palahniuk cellspeopleyears It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice. Chuck Palahniuk smartchoicesmistake You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk Chuck Palahniuk smartstupidneeds Every woman is just a different kind of problem. Chuck Palahniuk differentkindproblem Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. Chuck Palahniuk realstupiddiscovery When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option. Chuck Palahniuk drunksadnessworry
