--- title: "6 Haunted Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk" description: "6 Haunted quotes by Chuck Palahniuk. Plus more from Chuck Palahniuk and more Haunted sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/chuck-palahniuk-37_haunted_if-the-living-are-haunted-by-the-dead-th_797047.jpg" --- > [If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/if-the-living-are-haunted-by-the-dead-then-the-dead-are-haunted-by/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/chuck-palahniuk-37_haunted_if-the-living-are-haunted-by-the-dead-th_797047.jpg) > [“Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/godless-we-had-no-war-until-god-set-us-to-fight-each-other-for-the/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/chuck-palahniuk-37_god_godless-we-had-no-war-until-god-set-us-t_1368746.jpg) > [“She says, "I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me." Here, the funeral parade stops. At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/she-says-i-ll-swear-by-the-rose-tattooed-on-my-ass-that-old-man-raped/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/193/chuck-palahniuk-37_funny_she-says-i-ll-swear-by-the-rose-tattooed_1447199.jpg) > [You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/you-re-always-haunted-by-the-idea-you-re-wasting-your-life/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb4/chuck-palahniuk-37_ideas_you-re-always-haunted-by-the-idea-you-re_1540475.jpg) > [“If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/if-we-can-forgive-what-has-been-done-to-us-if-we-can-forgive-what-we/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f92/chuck-palahniuk-37_forgiveness_if-we-can-forgive-what-has-been-done-to_1942922.jpg) > [We're all of us haunted and haunting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/we-re-all-of-us-haunted-and-haunting/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/680/chuck-palahniuk-37_haunting_we-re-all-of-us-haunted-and-haunting-224_2244065.jpg) ## Other authors on Haunted ## More by Chuck Palahniuk > [Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/because-after-you-ve-crossed-some-lines-you-just-keep-crossing-them/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/according-to-plato-we-don-t-learn-anything-our-soul-has-lived-so-many/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/his-saliva-tasted-like-the-wet-dicks-of-ten-thousand-lonely-truck/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [“shoulder. They weigh that much. Tyler’s a banquet waiter,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/shoulder-they-weigh-that-much-tyler-s-a-banquet-waiter/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [We'll never be as young as we are tonight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/we-ll-never-be-as-young-as-we-are-tonight/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [“We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/we-drive-west-the-rest-of-the-night-away-from-where-the-sun-will-come/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/just-for-the-record-how-i-feel-right-now-is-very-terrific/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/nobody-s-told-me-anything-to-date-that-i-ve-been-completely-reviled-by/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/then-you-re-trapped-in-your-lovely-nest-and-the-things-you-used-to/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/some-stories-you-use-up-others-use-you-up/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/verbs-allow-you-to-communicate-a-story-in-a-much-more-converged-or/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/waiters-will-always-pee-in-soup-people-will-always-fall-in-love/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/branch-bacardi-star-of-the-da-vinci-load-to-drill-a-mockingbird-the/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/every-unkind-remark-or-crude-gesture-by-others-is-a-blessing-an/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) > [“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/nuestro-deber-es-ense-ar-a-esos-hombres-y-mujeres-la-libertad-a-trav/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/haunted/chuck-palahniuk/#itemlist", "name": "6 Haunted Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Chuck Palahniuk" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/if-the-living-are-haunted-by-the-dead-then-the-dead-are-haunted-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/chuck-palahniuk-37_haunted_if-the-living-are-haunted-by-the-dead-th_797047.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/chuck-palahniuk-37_haunted_if-the-living-are-haunted-by-the-dead-th_797047.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/chuck-palahniuk-37_haunted_if-the-living-are-haunted-by-the-dead-th_797047.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.” — Chuck Palahniuk", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Godless, 'we had no war.' 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