Author of quotes: Chuck Palahniuk. Page 4

Stendhal syndrome is a medical term. He describes cases when a painting, and any work of art, is so beautiful that it stuns the viewer. A kind of shock. In 1817, when Stendhal visited the church of Santa Croce in Florence, he wrote in his diary that he almost fainted with joy. People have bouts of a frantic heartbeat. They're dizzy. When you look at great art, you forget what your name is, you even forget where you are and why you came there. Great art can drive into depression and cause exhaustion of the body. Amnesia. Panic. Infarct. Clinical death.

You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. About Mozart and his uremia. About Paul Klee and the scleroderma that twisted his joints and muscles and led to death. Frida Kahlo and a split spine that caused bleeding sores on her legs. Lord Byron and his limp. The Brontë sisters with their consumption. Mark Rothko with his suicide. Flannery O'Connor with cutaneous tuberculosis. Inspiration needs sickness, injury, madness.

People don't get ideas. Just the opposite... Ideas give birth to us.

- So Tyler is kind of infection?
- He is the archetype. Tyler acts as a superstition or prejudice. It becomes part of the lens through which you perceive the world.

There are many ways to commit suicide, it does not have to die.

This little woman, similar to the skeleton's name is Chloe. On her ass pants sagged a sad sack. Chloe says that because of brain parasites no one wants to make love to her. She's died so many times that the amount paid for medical insurance amounted to seventy-five thousand dollars, and all she now wants is someone to fuck her. About love and the question: just fucked and that's it.

The big wet face pressed to the top of my head, and then I usually start to cry. It's easy to cry when you see nothing, surrounded by the warmth of a stranger, Konov understand that whatever you achieve in this life, sooner or later it will become dust.

No matter what the future holds for me - still it will disappoint me.

... hope is just another transition that we need to grow.

I'm stupid. I just all the time want something, all the time cling to something. For my pathetic life. My little shit job. For the Swedish furniture.

"The project mayhem" will save the world. An ice age culture. A prematurely induced dark age. "The project mayhem" will force humanity to take a NAP and restrict their appetites to the time needed for the Earth to recover.
Is the only justification for anarchy, says Tyler. - You just think. Fight club makes men out of clerks and cashiers. "The project mayhem" will make something more decent of modern civilization.

- Recycling and speed limits are bullshit, Tyler said. - It reminds me of those smokers that decide to quit Smoking, lying on his deathbed.

Thousands of years humans have fucked this planet, trashing it, and litter it, and now history demands that I clean up after everyone and pay their bills. Flaked cans, after washing them clean. Accountable for every drop of used motor oil.
And I have to pay for nuclear waste and fuel containers, buried in the ground, and landslides that destroy underground disposal of toxic wastes, for all that you've done the previous generation.

- I'm done with the thirst for physical power and proprietary drive - Tyler whispered, because only through self-destruction I will be able to come to power over the spirit.