Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

And falling's just another way to fly.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

When things fall apart you sometimes can see more. You might even be able to see how to put things back together.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

Everything changed after Katrina. It's a new New Orleans now and I think it's better. It was a wake-up call and it rebuilt and cleaned up the city. It all happened for a reason. I'm now grateful for Katrina.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

You have to break yourself down to rebuild yourself stronger.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.