Fight Club Quotes

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I'll never recover if he breaks my heart. ~Brooke”
― Katy Evans, Real

“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.”
― Chuck Palahnuik

“Love and life belongs to great risk.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“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. 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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time”
― chuck palahniuk

“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. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God’s attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption. Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we’re caught and punished can we be saved. 'Burn the Louvre,' the mechanic says, 'and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla del Club de la lucha es: NADIE habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La tercera regla es: la pelea termina cuando uno de los contendientes grita «alto», pierde la vertical o hace una señal. La cuarta regla: sólo dos personas por pelea. La quinta regla: sólo una pelea a la vez. La sexta regla: se pelea sin camisa y sin zapatos. La séptima regla: cada pelea dura lo que tiene que durar. La octava y última regla: si ésta es tu primera noche en el Club de la lucha, entonces tienes que pelear.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Нека никога не бъда завършен.
Нека никога не бъда доволен.
Нека никога не бъда съвършен.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Ако не знаеш какво искаш - каза портиерът, - накрая ти се натрупват сума ти неща, дето не ги искаш.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Ако те хване шубето, преди да си ударил дъното - каза Тайлър, - никога няма да успееш.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Само в гибелта можем да възкръснем.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Едва когато си загубил всичко - казва Тайлър, - си свободен да вършиш всичко.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“That world had failed them, because it told them material things were all they’d ever need. It had laid out a life for them instead of letting them choose one for themselves.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“Personas que conozco y que solían llevarse pornografía al cuarto de baño, ahora se llevan el catálogo de muebles de IKEA.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Paugh!" the troll scoffed. "Romance. Kissing and folly. Where's the story, where's the philosophy? I'm a troll, and even I can't rip a bodice. You should read real literature. The classics." He held up a book called Ye Olde Clubbe of Fisticuffs. "This is one of my favorites. It's all about, like, rejecting capitalism." He held up another, the spine as yet uncracked, called Alliance of Nincompoops. "Or this one, about a misunderstood genius. You should read it. I'd love to chat about what the true meaning of success is when we're living in a world that values looks instead of substance.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Kill the Farm Boy

“This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.”
― Tyler Durden, Fight Club

“As if the only choice they have left is how they're going to die, and they want to die in a fight.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Lo scopo era far prendere coscienza a ciascun partecipante al progetto del potere che ha di controllare la storia. Noi, ciascuno di noi, possiamo assumere il controllo del mondo.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“...the nude scene was gone. One projectionist took a frame. Another projectionist took a frame. Everybody wanted to make a naked slide of Angie Dickinson. Porno got into theaters and these projectionists, some guys they built collections that got epic.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If we didn’t catch enough fish, or fish of high enough quality, too bad. That’s life. No one has the right to win. Victory has to be fought for. It needs a Fight Club, not a Flight Club.”
― Brother Abaris, The Illuminist Army

“He asked: “You are aware of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, right?”
“‘You Do Not Talk About Thermodynamics?’” Rudy said nothing. “The currency of the universe, Entropy. Okay and…?”
“A candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.”
“That seems unrelated, but I’ll allow it. Is that supposed to be comforting?”
“I like either the lavender or cinnamon-scented ones.”
“This isn’t the advice I was asking for and you know that.”
“Isn’t it? You know, it doesn’t take a master’s in behavioral psychology to see you’ve some unresolved issues.”
“And the universe has a tendency to devolve into chaos, so why bother controlling it, just control myself?”
Rudy just continued to shoot glances at Danny’s arm. Danny kept it face down, pretending not to notice.
“Rudy: Sigmund Freud meets Dr. Seuss. Thank you.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“Men are so often made to feel inadequate and stupid for having feelings and problems and expressing their doubts and fears. Fight Club was the pressure cooker that lanced the boil of the pent-up existential crisis in masculinity that continues even more so to this day.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I am Joe's Grinding Teeth.
I am Joe's Inflamed Flaring Nostrils.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club