Invisible Monsters Quotes:

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

source: "Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

topic: Want, Invisible Monsters, Action

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Love, Life, Dream, Invisible Monsters, Unrequited

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

topic: Inspiring, Effort, Inspire, Invisible Monsters, Being Original

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Night, Vegas, Heaven, Invisible Monsters

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Life, Optimistic, Bored, Invisible Monsters

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: History, Remembered, Invisible Monsters

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Smile, Long, Teeth, Invisible Monsters, My Smile

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Past, Stories, Realizing, Invisible Monsters

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Life, Hard Times, Past, Invisible Monsters

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Friday, Sunday, Weekend, Invisible Monsters, Saturday And Sunday

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.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Scare, Want, What You Want, Invisible Monsters

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Baby, Giving, Lust, Invisible Monsters, Intellectualism

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?

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Change, Death, Character, Invisible Monsters, Death Anniversary

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Feel Better, Games, Useless, Invisible Monsters, Game Shows

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.31, A&C Black

topic: Inspirational, Life, Hurt, Invisible Monsters, Powerful Life Changing

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Hate, Self Loathing, Invisible Monsters, Don't Hate, Hatred And Love

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Real, Stupid, Discovery, Invisible Monsters, Chaos In The World

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.15, Random House

topic: Invisible Monsters

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Happiness, Bad Day, Cutting, Taking Risks, Invisible Monsters

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Giving, Parent, Trying, Invisible Monsters

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Parent, Want, Satan, Invisible Monsters, Puberty

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.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Family, God, Home, Invisible Monsters, About Family

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Monsters, Invisible, Invisible Monsters

Make me into anything, but just love me.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Just Love Me, Invisible Monsters, Big Hair

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Life, Heart, Practice, Invisible Monsters

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Promise, Literature, Threat, Switching, Invisible Monsters

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Invisible Monsters

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Looks, Invisible Monsters

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Mistake, Trying, Birth, Invisible Monsters, Birth Life

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Invisible Monsters

Find good in what the world says is evil.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Evil, World, Invisible Monsters

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 up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking, Invisible Monsters, Biggest Mistake

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Single, Real, Adventure, Undefined, Invisible Monsters

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Silly, Hysteria, Laughing, Invisible Monsters, Empty Rooms

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Invisible Monsters, Becoming God

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Invisible Monsters, Compact, One Of A Kind

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Real, Mistake, Discovery, Invisible Monsters

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 with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Change, Running, Fighting, Invisible Monsters

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Feet, Disaster, Invisible Monsters

The future is just wasted on some people.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: People, Invisible Monsters

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

topic: Invisible Monsters