Chuck Palahniuk Want Quotations

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be

I want to have your abortion.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

Every generation wants to be the last.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

I don't want to die without a few scars..

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

I don't want to die without any scars.

I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.