Survivor Quotes.

1. "You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

2. "A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

3. "The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

4. "Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

5. "You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

6. "There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

7. "People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

8. "Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

9. "Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

10. "Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor