Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

The moment is the sole reality.

Love is simply where it is.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

Life is life, and kind is kind

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.