When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I’m breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We dance past states of saints in somebody else's religion. To m they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“The paradox: is God a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semetic? Or is God testing to see if I am?” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
