--- title: "9 Special Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk" description: "9 Special quotes by Chuck Palahniuk. Plus more from Chuck Palahniuk and more Special sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/chuck-palahniuk-37_beautiful_you-are-not-special-you-are-not-a-beauti_2409642.jpg" --- > [You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/you-are-not-special-you-are-not-a-beautiful-or-unique-snowflake-you/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/chuck-palahniuk-37_beautiful_you-are-not-special-you-are-not-a-beauti_2409642.jpg) > [The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/the-world-will-always-punish-the-few-people-with-special-talents-the/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/chuck-palahniuk-37_people_the-world-will-always-punish-the-few-peo_1066316.jpg) > [There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/there-is-nothing-special-in-the-world-nothing-magic-just-physics/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3a/chuck-palahniuk-37_magic_there-is-nothing-special-in-the-world-no_2961642.jpg) > [I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/i-love-the-power-of-words-no-music-or-special-effects-and-i-want-to/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/chuck-palahniuk-37_demonstrate_i-love-the-power-of-words-no-music-or-sp_2185976.jpg) > [“The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/the-first-time-you-meet-that-someone-special-you-can-count-on-them/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/chuck-palahniuk-37_first-time_the-first-time-you-meet-that-someone-spe_3056235.jpg) > [We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/we-are-not-special-we-are-not-crap-or-trash-either-we-just-are-we/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ba/chuck-palahniuk-37_crap_we-are-not-special-we-are-not-crap-or-tr_2246981.jpg) > [Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/let-s-all-embrace-someone-near-us-pick-someone-special-to-you-tell/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/909/chuck-palahniuk-37_embrace_let-s-all-embrace-someone-near-us-pick-s_1151193.jpg) > [Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/didn-t-i-realize-that-each-of-us-is-a-sacred-unique-snowflake-of/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26d/chuck-palahniuk-37_realizing_didn-t-i-realize-that-each-of-us-is-a-sa_952368.jpg) > [Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/six-hundred-and-forty-fish-later-the-only-thing-i-know-is-everything/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/256/chuck-palahniuk-37_death_six-hundred-and-forty-fish-later-the-onl_2163585.jpg) ## Other authors on Special ## 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/special/chuck-palahniuk/#itemlist", "name": "9 Special Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You are not special. 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