Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

I always thought that the U.S. was just amazing, and it was just a dream. I thought it was Heaven. Coming here a couple years ago, you know, the U.S. is still nice, but it's not like what I thought it was going to be.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.