Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

It took me a while to find myself.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

You have to really swallow your pride and admit that you want to make a comeback. And that means that you weren't at your best and I feel like I stopped being who I needed to be. When I started making this record "Born Villain", I didn't want to be what I used to be but I certainly didn't want to be what I was at the time. I knew that I was supposed to be something better then what I was. I feel that I am close to being what I'm supposed to be and am enjoying what I'm doing here.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.