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Things Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes.…
- The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.…
- If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
- If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real'…
- Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
- If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's…
- I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label.…
- The things you used to own, now they own you.
- We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with…
- You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple…
- The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs,…
- This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things…
- Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
- The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays…
- It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
- There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old…
- Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX…
- At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.
- History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
- Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
- I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
- After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
- Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let…
- Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
- There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle