Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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

• People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Pain, Fall

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 3, 2005.

• Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Sacrifice, Space

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

• I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Pain, Wall

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

• What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Mean, Artist

• Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Stanislavski, Knows

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Writing, Exercise

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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