Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Age, Remember

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

• We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Makeup, Islands, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.33, Random House

• The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Soul, Age, Phases

  "Doomed". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, October 8, 2013.

• Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Lying, Animal

• Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Sweat, Climbing

• By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worst Enemy, Age, Choke

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

• Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mother, Liars, Believe

• We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Fighting, Names

• Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Birthday, Years, Bully

• The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Queens, Stupid, Moving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

• How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Dark, Years

• I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Media, Age

  Source: www.charlierusso.com

• Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Age, Lasts, Taste

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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