You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
Weitere Zitate von Chuck Palahniuk
Zum Autor"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."
"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."
"If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create."
"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
"In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power."