“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
“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.”
“No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
“Art never comes from happiness.”
“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
“Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”
“Life is short, death is forever.”
“There’s nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.”
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
“The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.”
“You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”
“Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.”
“How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?”
“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly – all these make for great stories.”
“What would Tyler Durden do?”
“People don’t listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.”
“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
“I don’t want to die without any scars.”
“The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.”
“Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
“We’ll never be as young as we are tonight.”
“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.”
“If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”
“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.”
“I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. I am Jack’s Broken Heart.”
“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash.”
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”
“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It’s because they know what it’s like to be treated like an animal.”
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”
“If you love something set it free, but don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
“Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.”
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?”
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