--- title: "10 Maybe Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk" description: "10 Maybe quotes by Chuck Palahniuk. Plus more from Chuck Palahniuk and more Maybe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/251/chuck-palahniuk-37_break_maybe-we-have-to-break-everything-to-mak_575030.jpg" --- > [Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/maybe-we-have-to-break-everything-to-make-something-better-out-of/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/251/chuck-palahniuk-37_break_maybe-we-have-to-break-everything-to-mak_575030.jpg) > [Maybe we should always assume the worst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/maybe-we-should-always-assume-the-worst/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/205/chuck-palahniuk-37_assume_maybe-we-should-always-assume-the-worst_414530.jpg) > [Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/maybe-the-truth-is-i-really-want-to-like-you-instead/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c64/chuck-palahniuk-37_like-you_maybe-the-truth-is-i-really-want-to-like_1933344.jpg) > [“There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/there-will-be-mistakes-and-maybe-the-point-is-not-to-forget-the-rest/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/chuck-palahniuk-37_maybe_there-will-be-mistakes-and-maybe-the-poi_483506.jpg) > [“...and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/and-maybe-we-have-to-break-everything-to-make-something-better-out-of/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/chuck-palahniuk-37_break_and-maybe-we-have-to-break-everything-to_320668.jpg) > [“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/maybe-you-don-t-go-to-hell-for-the-things-you-do-maybe-you-go-to-hell/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a6/chuck-palahniuk-37_hell_maybe-you-don-t-go-to-hell-for-the-thing_2402053.jpg) > [“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/at-the-time-my-life-just-seemed-too-complete-and-maybe-we-have-to/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/chuck-palahniuk-37_life_at-the-time-my-life-just-seemed-too-comp_2283569.jpg) > [My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/my-way-of-being-with-people-is-probably-incredibly-unhealthy-in-that/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f11/chuck-palahniuk-37_being_my-way-of-being-with-people-is-probably_1933652.jpg) > [In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/in-books-you-can-just-wallow-in-dialogue-and-you-can-just-wallow-in/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/461/chuck-palahniuk-37_after_in-books-you-can-just-wallow-in-dialogue_1534391.jpg) > [Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/or-maybe-just-maybe-this-whole-process-is-our-training-wheels-towards/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d69/chuck-palahniuk-37_awake_or-maybe-just-maybe-this-whole-process-i_848356.jpg) ## Other authors on Maybe ## 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/maybe/chuck-palahniuk/#itemlist", "name": "10 Maybe Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Chuck Palahniuk" }, "url": 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