Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

There's the idea that love is supposed to hurt, but it really shouldn't hurt.

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

What hurts us is what heals us.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.

And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

To love the world is to be afflicted.

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.