Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Relationship, Boyfriend

  FaceBook post by Chuck Palahniuk from Aug 19, 2013

• Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, War, Nice

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

• Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hurt, People, Envy

• We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Hate, War

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.135, Random House

• Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Sick, Joy

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

• 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

  Girl, Sweet, Jail

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

• Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Mean, Wings

• There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dark, Joy, Secret

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

• Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Brother, Cities, Ideas

• That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Appreciation, Joy, How You Feel

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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