Choke Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

#1. I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W.
Let the wind erase it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

Craig Callender

#5. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but ...
Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)

Christopher Hitchens

#7. You could choke on the silence.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.

Jared Padalecki

#9. The reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'!

Pedro Okoro

#10. The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.

Brie Larson

#12. We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Recognize yourself as a person who has received a precious gift from your creator

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more regular hours these days.

Max Richter

#16. So the last night the girl and her lover would be together, the girl would bring the lamp and set it so it threw the lover's shadow to the wall!!!!!

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome.

Carla H. Krueger

#20. The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

Thomas A Kempis

#24. The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

Chuck Palahniuk

#25. My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. The only thing that separates us from the animals ... is we have pornography.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

Brian Tracy

#31. The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked ...

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. We have the power to let go, the power to to hang on, and the power to be ...

Lisa A. Mininni