Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.

I don't fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, 'Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.'

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

I'm waiting for the floor to drop out from under me.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.