Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Chaos

Quotes about: Chaos

• Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Stupid, Discovery

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

• There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doe, Watches, Variables

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dark, Night, Reality

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

• You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Light, Years

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

• Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chaos, Choke, True Peace

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

• This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

• Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Chaos, Sometimes

• I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Moving, Thinking, Jumping

• What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Patterns, Chaos, Havens

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Mistake, Discovery

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

• Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Emotional, Realization, Chaos

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

• Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Artist, Order

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

• Our real discoveries come from chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Discovery, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

• Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chaos, True Peace

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