--- title: "15 Laughing Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk" description: "15 Laughing quotes by Chuck Palahniuk. Plus more from Chuck Palahniuk and more Laughing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/167/chuck-palahniuk-37_laughing_panicking-by-yourself-is-the-same-as-lau_2966032.jpg" --- > [“Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/panicking-by-yourself-is-the-same-as-laughing-alone-in-an-empty-room/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/167/chuck-palahniuk-37_laughing_panicking-by-yourself-is-the-same-as-lau_2966032.jpg) > [These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/these-days-most-of-the-people-you-hear-laughing-are-dead/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e4/chuck-palahniuk-37_comedy_these-days-most-of-the-people-you-hear-l_2390761.jpg) > [A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/a-good-story-should-make-you-laugh-and-a-moment-later-break-your-heart/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7a/chuck-palahniuk-37_break_a-good-story-should-make-you-laugh-and-a_1362281.jpg) > [Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/most-of-the-laugh-tracks-on-television-were-recorded-in-the-early/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/chuck-palahniuk-37_laughing_most-of-the-laugh-tracks-on-television-w_1012567.jpg) > [Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/hysteria-is-impossible-without-an-audience-panicking-by-yourself-is/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5a/chuck-palahniuk-37_audience_hysteria-is-impossible-without-an-audien_576196.jpg) > [Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/also-consider-that-someday-when-you-re-dead-and-rotted-kids-with/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/chuck-palahniuk-37_baby_also-consider-that-someday-when-you-re-d_1248056.jpg) > [Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/everything-is-funnier-in-retrospect-funnier-and-prettier-and-cooler/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/chuck-palahniuk-37_enough_everything-is-funnier-in-retrospect-funn_1804258.jpg) > [Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/sometimes-the-very-best-way-to-deal-with-unpleasant-things-is-to/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/709/chuck-palahniuk-37_acknowledge_sometimes-the-very-best-way-to-deal-with_2219501.jpg) > [No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/no-matter-what-else-you-came-up-against-if-you-could-smile-and-laugh/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/chuck-palahniuk-37_basements_no-matter-what-else-you-came-up-against_186889.jpg) > [If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/if-you-make-people-laugh-too-much-their-blood-becomes-i-believe-it-is/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb9/chuck-palahniuk-37_believe_if-you-make-people-laugh-too-much-their_2532369.jpg) > [So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/so-often-with-beginning-writers-the-story-that-they-want-to-start/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/841/chuck-palahniuk-37_addiction_so-often-with-beginning-writers-the-stor_1039035.jpg) > [I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/i-have-a-secret-goal-with-my-editor-he-has-asthma-and-uses-his/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3d/chuck-palahniuk-37_assistants_i-have-a-secret-goal-with-my-editor-he-h_2905251.jpg) > [I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/i-learned-all-those-jokes-in-second-grade-second-grade-is-really/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/365/chuck-palahniuk-37_crap_i-learned-all-those-jokes-in-second-grad_1334937.jpg) > [The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/the-only-place-where-you-can-really-surprise-or-shock-the-reader-or/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/chuck-palahniuk-37_books_the-only-place-where-you-can-really-surp_1783362.jpg) > [We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/we-hear-the-ambient-noise-of-children-singing-we-hear-lions-and/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de9/chuck-palahniuk-37_ambient_we-hear-the-ambient-noise-of-children-si_3010218.jpg) ## Other authors on Laughing ## 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/laughing/chuck-palahniuk/#itemlist", "name": "15 Laughing Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. 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