Quote

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
Every
Suicide
Life
Choice
Minutes
Choices
Dies
Suicidal
Freedom
Breath
Death
Breaths
Live
Minute

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The more things you own, the more they own you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.
Chuck Palahniuk