Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep...wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you....The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.'

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Stars, Lying

• People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Waiting, Turns

• I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taken, Fate, Knowing

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

• After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting, Choke

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

• I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Men, Waiting, Tables

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

• Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting In Line, People, Looks

  "Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

• You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kids, Thinking, Space

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

• People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Waiting, Dying

• This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Song, Two, Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

• The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting, World, Disaster

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

• A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Waiting, Shining

  Source: www.esquire.com

• All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Publishing House, Self

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

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