Fight Club Quotes From Tyler Durden
“We are consumers. We’re the by-products of a lifestyle obsession.”
Tyler Durden
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
Tyler Durden
“It’s a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?”
Tyler Durden
“Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!”
Tyler Durden
“The things you own end up owning you.”
Tyler Durden
“You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.”
Tyler Durden
“I am profoundly vanilla.”
Tyler Durden
“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
Tyler Durden
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”
Tyler Durden
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
Tyler Durden
“The first rule of project mayhem is you do not ask questions.”
Tyler Durden
“If you aren’t on your way to becoming a vet in six weeks, you will be dead.”
Tyler Durden
“I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”
Tyler Durden
“The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.”
Tyler Durden
“First, you’ve gotta know – not fear, know – that someday, you’re gonna die.”
Tyler Durden
“I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war… Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
Tyler Durden
“You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
Tyler Durden
“How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?”
Tyler Durden
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile.”
Tyler Durden
“You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.”
Tyler Durden
“An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables. Slaves with white collars.”
Tyler Durden
“Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God’s unwanted children? So be it!”
Tyler Durden
“Fight Club was the beginning, now it’s moved out of the basement, it’s called Project Mayhem.”
Tyler Durden
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
Tyler Durden
“This is your life…good to the last drop.”
Tyler Durden
“When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.”
Tyler Durden
“Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
Tyler Durden
“We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy’s name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.”
Tyler Durden
“You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you.”
Tyler Durden
“I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let’s evolve. Let the chips fall where they may.”
Tyler Durden
“This is your pain. This is your burning hand. It’s right here. Look at it.”
Tyler Durden
“Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
Tyler Durden
“I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who have ever lived an entire generation pumping gas and waiting tables; or they’re slaves with white collars. Advertisements have them chasing cars and clothes, working jobs they hate so they can buy shit they don’t need. We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place. We have no great war, or great depression. The great war is a spiritual war. The great depression is our lives. We were raised by television to believe that we’d be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars — but we won’t. And we’re learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed-off.”
Tyler Durden
“Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you’re taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric. Docile. You accept your fate. It’s all right here. Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour. Blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.”
Tyler Durden
“People do it everyday, they talk to themselves. They see themselves as they’d like to be. They don’t have the courage you have, to just run with it.”
Tyler Durden
“F*ck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that’s your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me.”
Tyler Durden
Fight Club Quotes From the Narrator
“With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”
Narrator
“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species.”
Narrator
“You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
Narrator
“With a gun barrel pressed between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”
Narrator
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
Narrator
“And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Narrator
“When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep and you’re never really awake.”
Narrator
“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”
Narrator
“After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.”
Narrator
“Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?”
Narrator
“I am Jack’s raging bile duct.”
Narrator
“On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone reaches zero.”
Narrator
“I am Jack’s cold sweat.”
Narrator
“Tyler built himself an army. Why was Tyler Durden building an army? To what purpose? For what greater good? In Tyler we trusted.”
Narrator
“Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct.”
Narrator
“I am Jack’s smirking revenge.”
Narrator
“I’m Jack’s complete lack of surprise.”
Narrator
“I am Jack’s inflamed sense of rejection.”
Narrator
Fight Club Quotes from Marla Singer
“A condom is the glass slipper for our generation. You slip one on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, and then you throw it away.”
Marla Singer
“It might have been too much.”
Marla Singer
“I haven’t been f*cked like that since grade school.”
Marla Singer
“When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just…” -Narrator
“…instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?”
Marla Singer
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