We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke.
“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 addict...”
“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”
“You cant fool people into loving you.”
“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots....”
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment a clarification of our souls until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.”
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
“Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.”
“You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.""I...”
“Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
“I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country.”
“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”
“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”