Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Life, Dream

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

• The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

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

• 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Dream, I Hate You

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

• That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Sarcastic, Dream

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.52, Random House

• Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Smart, Ambition

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.257, Random House

• Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Noses, Facts

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

• Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Kids, Alive

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.53, Random House

• Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mom, Dream, Dad

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.28, Random House

• Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mom, Dream, Dad

• If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Lonely, Book

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

• Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, People, Goes On

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

• As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Jobs, Kids

  "'It's Paula-nick'". Online Q&A, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

• The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Years, Design

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