"It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Dark Quotes #Night Quotes #Reality Quotes

“As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.”
“Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.”
“And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!”
“I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.”
“I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.”
“Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.”
“Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

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