Quotes from Diary

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Everyone's in their own personal coma.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“How you're still always trapped.

How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

“You'll need to suffer to make any real art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary

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― Malcolm Gladwell, quote from Outliers: The Story of Success

“Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .

flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,
decomposing 16mm film.
Happiness escapes
me there, where faces
are vague and yesterday
seems to come tied
up in ribbons of pain.

Happiness? I look for it intead
in today, where memory
is something I can still
touch, still rely on.
I find it in the smiles
of new friends, the hope
blossoming inside.

My happiest memories
have no place in the
past; they are those
I have yet to create.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Impulse

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― Charlotte Brontë, quote from Villette

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