- Chuck Palahniuk

• *"This is your life, and it’s ending one moment at a time."
• *"Nothing of me is original. I'm the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
• *"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because **nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."
• *"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

-Bob Dylan

• *"He who's not busy being born is busy dying."
• *“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
• *"Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine."
• *"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
• *"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."
• *"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
• *"Money doesn't talk, it swears."
• *"When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?"
• *"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change."
• *"I say there are no depressed words just depressed minds."
• *"If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself."

- Christopher Marlowe

• *"Quod me nutrit, me destruit."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

• *"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
• *"This was the world in which she grew and he aged. They made for themselves a sanctuary from Trachimbrod, a habitat completely unlike the rest of the world. No hateful words were ever spoken, and no hands raised. More than that, no angry words were ever spoken, and nothing was denied. But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn't have to be that way; if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."

- E.E. Cummings

• *"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• *“Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.”

- Coco Chanel

• *"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
• *“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
• *“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

- Yves Saint Laurent

• *"Les modes passent, le style est éternel. La mode est futile, le style pas."
• *"Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime."

-CS Lewis.

• *"There is no safe investment to love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell."
• *"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

- Anaïs Nin

• *"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
• *"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
• *"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."
• *“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
• *"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
• *"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
• *"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
• *"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

- Jack Kerouac

• *"My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love."
• *"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
• *"..besides which Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
• *"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes - the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things."

- William Shakespeare

• *“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

- Unknown

• *"Admire la personne qui te critique , car prisonnière de sa propre jalousie, elle ne fait que t'admirer."

-Oscar Wilde

• *"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. "
• *"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain."
• *"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
• *"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
• *"Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief."
• *"All charming people are spoiled, it is the secret of their attraction."

- Siddhārtha Gautama

• *“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
• *“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

- Karl Lagerfeld

• *"Ma curiosité est insatiable, je vampirise l’air du temps.”
• *"Mon plus grand luxe est de n'avoir à me justifier auprès de personne.”
• *"La mode n'est ni morale, ni amorale, mais elle est faite pour remonter le moral."

- Sylvia Plath

• *"How we need that security! How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."
• *"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. "

- Kurt Vonnegut

• *"You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants."

- Marilyn Monroe

• *"It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
• *"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

• *"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
• *"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."

- Bob Marley

• *"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live."
• *"Who are you to judge the life I live? I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean."

- Augusten Burroughs

• *"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."

- Audrey Hepburn

• *“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
• *"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."

- Dalai Lama

• *"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."

- Albert Einstein

• *"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
• *"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has it's own reason for existing."

-Steve Jobs

• *"Almost everything- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

- Edgar Allan Poe

• *"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry."
• *"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

• *"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. and the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
• *“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
• *"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

-Horace

• *"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• *"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
• *"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."

- Henry David Thoreau

• *"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately [...] and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

- Charles Bukowski

• *"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
• *"You’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is."

- Shana Abe

• *“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

- Khalil Gibran

• *"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes."