Moments Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

— Chuck Palahniuk

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not…

— Chuck Palahniuk

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

— Chuck Palahniuk

When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

— Chuck Palahniuk

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap.…

— 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.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You…

— Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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…

— Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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…

— Chuck Palahniuk