Chuck Palahniuk Damned Quotes

#1. What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

Paul Bowles

#3. This is the upside of already being eternally damned

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

Debbi Fields

#6. An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Thomas Campbell

#7. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

Hank Aaron

#9. In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing subject is one occasion of a sensitive reaction to an actual world.'

the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world

George Oppen

#10. Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.

Douglas Coupland

#12. I cross my fingers that if a demon dunks me in a vat of boiling lava I'll get thrown together naked with River Phoenix, and that he'll say I'm cute and try to kiss me.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. The winner is just the loser who never gave up!

Mika.

#14. Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. ,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw.
Chapter I.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that allows you to dream and to make your mind up on where you're at in the story.

Stuart A. Staples

#17. When they turn the sun
on again I'll plant children
under it, I'll light up my soul
with a match and let it sing ...

Anne Sexton

#18. Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become things in your life.

Rhonda Byrne

#19. No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

Chuck Palahniuk