Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Growing Up, Fate

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.197, W. W. Norton & Company

• Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Money, Angel

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

• The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Running, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

• These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Running, Couple

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

• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

• Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Filling Up, Half

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

• The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fall, Want You Back

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

• Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Anxiety, Drug

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fun, Book

  Source: content.time.com

• Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Self, Smoking

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