Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

I always like to play. I cannot sit down and see what's going to happen, because it's boring.

Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

A sure thing is no fun.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

Civilization is sterilization.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

Routine is the death to heroism.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people just couldn't wait until they found themselves settled down into a routine and they didn't have to think about the next day, or the next year, or the next decade because it was all planned out for them. I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.