Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

No sense makes sense.

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

"Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?" The Imass shrugged before replying. "I think of futility, Adjunct." "Do all Imass think about futility?" "No. Few think at all." "Why is that?" The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. "Because, Adjunct, it is futile."

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

Everything is absurd.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

The point is there ain't no point.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents