Quote

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

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
Stab
Knife
Knives
Late
Right
Heart

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Life is short, death is forever
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The things you used to own, now they own you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
Chuck Palahniuk