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Fight Club QuotesHere's a list of our favorite Fight Club quotes. The first batch of quotations are from the movie; the second batch is from the novel. This site wouldn't exist if it weren't for the novelist Chuck Palahniuk, and it also wouldn't exist without the brilliant director David Fincher, so God bless them both. Fight Club Movie QuotesHow much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? We just had a near-life experience, fellas. I felt like destroying something beautiful. Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
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. Third rule of Fight Club: someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: no shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight. With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down. Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessle's life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever had. I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. I got in everyone's hostile little face. Yes, these are bruises from fighting. Yes, I'm comfortable with that. I am enlightened. When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. I've got a stomach full of Xanax. I took what was left of a bottle. It might have been too much. F**k Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic; it's all going down, man. Look, nobody takes this more seriously than me. That condo was my life, okay? I loved every stick of furniture in that place. That was not just a bunch of stuff that got destroyed, it was me! The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip. If I did have a tumor, I'd name it Marla. My God... I haven't been f**ked like that since grade school. All right, if the applicant is young, tell him he's too young. Old, too old. Fat, too fat. If the applicant then waits for three days without food, shelter, or encouragement he may then enter and begin his training. We're the middle children of history.... 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. 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 f**king khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. Fight Club Novel Quotes...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself....You're not your name....You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes. I just don't want to die without a few scars. It used to be enough that when I came home angry and knowing that my life wasn't toeing my five-year plan, I could clean my condominium or detail my car. Someday I'd be dead without a scar and there would be a really nice condo and car. On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered. This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. And I wasn't the only slave to my nesting instinct. The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue. After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer....Maybe self-destruction is the answer. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. You aren't alive anywhere like you're alive at fight club.... Fight club isn't about winning or losing fights. Fight club isn't about words. You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything. There's grunting and noise at fight club like at the gym, but fight club isn't about looking good. There's hysterical shouting in tongues like at church, and when you wake up Sunday afternoon you feel saved. By this time next week, each guy on the Assault Committee has to pick a fight where he won't come out a hero. And not in fight club. This is harder than it sounds. A man on the street will do anything not to fight. The idea is to take some Joe on the street who's never been in a fight and recruit him. Let him experience winning for the first time in his life. Get him to explode. Give him permission to beat the crap out of you. You can take it. If you win, you screwed up. What we have to do, people, (Tyler told the committee) is remind these guys what kind of power they still have. I wanted to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now. This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead We wanted to blast the world free of history....picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. 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. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. Support our site by checking out the Fight Club products available at Amazon, or by looking at the Fight Club posters & t-shirts available at AllPosters.
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