Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.“It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.”We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

I am nothing, and not even that.

I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things.Only end them.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.