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Living Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if…
- We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
- Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or…
- As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of…
- At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
- You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
- A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to…
- This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.
- The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details.…
- Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
- Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out…
- After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
- You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.
- Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the…
- Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the…
- If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
- You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the…
- What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father…
- I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov