Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

You’ll be free or you will die.

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.