Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters (1999)

62 Sourced Quotes

View all Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Chuck Palahniuk
What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Chuck Palahniuk
Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

Chuck Palahniuk
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

Chuck Palahniuk
It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Chuck Palahniuk
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

Chuck Palahniuk
The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

Chuck Palahniuk
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

Chuck Palahniuk
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk
I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk
You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Chuck Palahniuk
Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

Chuck Palahniuk
No way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

Chuck Palahniuk
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

Chuck Palahniuk
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something.

Chuck Palahniuk
A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Chuck Palahniuk
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk
You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Chuck Palahniuk
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
We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

Chuck Palahniuk