Chuck Palahniuk on Love
Browse 13 quotations attributed to Chuck Palahniuk, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Chuck Palahniuk, entry #1475: "I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just …"
Attributed to Chuck Palahniuk, entry #1818: "Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."
13 Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk on Love
"I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."
"Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."
"Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it."
"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."
"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
"Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't."
"Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship."
"You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."
"Make me into anything, but just love me."
"People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves."
"We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one."
"What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control of the game. It’s the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow is a first definite step down some road."
"When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy them, but now they call this free will. At least the Greeks were being honest."