Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

I'm used to people talking about me.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

The higher your profile, the more people want you.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.