Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Worry

Quotes about: Worry

• Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Brother, Dancing, Imagination

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

• When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness, Drunk, Worry

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

• If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worry, Disaster, Mausoleum

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

• In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worry, Ends

• 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

• What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Worry, Focus

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

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