Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
I don't want to die without any scars.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
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 keep living.
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
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. The things you don't finish.
Some people still think knowledge is power.
What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.
After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.
trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
Make me into anything, but just love me.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.
It sounds as if you'd like to be God.
Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.
I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our communityChuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO
My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play .
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
We just had a near-life experience!
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. Report. Don't participate.
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?
If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
The lucky ones are just born dead.
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
...Because love is confusing and strange and difficult and uncomfortable and unbelievable inconvenient. But above all, love is transcendent.
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
إن الناس إذا أعتقدوا أن تحتضر ، يعطونك كامل اهتمامهم .. إذا كانت هذه هي آخر مرة يرونك فيها يرونك حقًا .. وينسون كل شيء آخر عن دفاتر شيكاتهم وأغاني الراديو و العناية بشعرهم . إنك تظهر باهتمامهم الكامل ..
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Believe in me and you shall die, forever.
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
