Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).

Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11

She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work.

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

Thanos came to me while I was taking a psychology class in college after coming out of the service; the ol' Thanos/Eros concept.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.