Chuck Palahniuk Looks Quotations

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.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

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 fine.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.Like Tyler says, even a souffle' looks pumped.

I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.