Chuck Palahniuk citáty

„Úsmev môžete držať len na obmedzený čas, potom sú to len zuby.“

„Len nechcem zomrieť bez pár jaziev.“

„"Kým nebudete môcť ignorovať svoje okolnosti a robiť to, čo sľubujete," hovorí, "budete vždy pod kontrolou sveta."“

„Pravda je, že kdekoľvek sa rozhodnete byť, je to zlé miesto.“

„Otcovia. Matky. So všetkou tou starostlivosťou a pozornosťou. Zakaždým vás zničia, vždy.“

„Je veľa vecí, ktoré o ľuďoch, ktorých milujeme, nechceme vedieť.“

„Títo ľudia sa tak boja ticha. To sú moji susedia. Títo zvukoholici. Títo tichofóbici.“

„Jediná vec, ktorá nás oddeľuje od zvierat je ... že my máme pornografiu.“

„Nič nie je statické. Všetko sa vyvíja. Všetko sa rozpadá.“

„Stalo sa večné šťastie v rajskej záhrade tak nudné, že zjesť jablko bolo opodstatnené?“

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”

“We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.”

“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”

“Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.”

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”

“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”

“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”

“I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.”

“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.”

“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you”

“The more things you own, the more they own you.”

“There's worse that people can steal from you than money.”

“The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.”

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”

“You can say anything if enough people will listen.”

“People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. So you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party… As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put down. That's the Spirit of the Stairway. The trouble is, even the French don't have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure. Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”