Fight Club Quotes
"The first step to eternal life is you have to die."
"This isn't really death. We'll be legend. We won't grow old."
"You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die."
"That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways."
"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer."
"You aren't alive anywhere like you're alive at fight club."
"After my last fight, the guy who fought me mopped the floor while I called my insurance to pre-approve a visit to the emergency room."
"You don't talk about fight club because except for five hours from two until seven on Sunday morning, fight club doesn't exist."
"I didn't want to, but Tyler explained it all, about not wanting to die without any scars, about being tired of watching only professionals fight, and wanting to know more about himself."
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
"Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered."
"Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves."
"Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight."
"According to my boss, there are fewer and fewer gentlemen in business and more thugs."
"Just let us in, Marla, and we can help you with your problems!"
"My job where my boss got on my computer and fiddled with my DOS execute commands."
"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."
"This is a chemical burn, and it will hurt more than you've ever been burned."
"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing? Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
"The first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club."
"The second rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club."
"You can mix the nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite."
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
"Getting fired is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives."
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile."
"Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing."
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
"You are not your job, you are not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis."
"I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content, I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever art, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth, I say you have to give up, I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may."
"I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see."
"Here, I'm not sure if Tyler is my dream. Or if I am Tyler's dream."
"The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club."
"What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God."
"It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky."
"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 your age. You're not your problems."
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world."
"We're the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't."
"Just understand, if there's a spark, even static electricity from the carpet, you're dead. Screaming, burned-alive dead."
"If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God."
"I'm trying to figure where I can go that the cops won't be looking for me."
"You're a brave man," the bus driver says, "to make yourself a homework assignment."
"I can tell the cops about Tyler. I'll tell them everything about fight club, and maybe I'll go to jail, and then Project Mayhem will be their problem to solve, and I won't be staring down a knife."
"You have to forgive me for this," the driver says. "The committee says this is your own idea sir."
"I'm not killing myself, I yell. I'm killing Tyler."
"Everything you ever love will reject you or die."
"Everything you ever create will be thrown away."
"Everything you're proud of will end up as trash."
"Just because you and your little disciples like getting beat up, you touch me ever again, and you're dead."
"Everything in heaven is quiet, rubber-soled shoes."
"We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are."