Fight Club Quotes

Narrator: Fight club wasn't about winning or losing. It wasn't about words. The hysterical shouting was in tongues, like at a Pentecostal Church.

Tyler: God Damn! We just had a near-life experience, fellas.

Tyler: You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.

Narrator: Is Tyler my bad dream? Or am I Tyler's?

Narrator: Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.

Tyler: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Narrator: I am Jack's cold sweat.

Narrator: If I did have a tumor, I'd name it Marla.

Tyler: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Narrator: I got in everyone's hostile little face. Yes, these are bruises from fighting. Yes, I'm comfortable with that. I am enlightened.

Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.

Narrator: When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... And you're never really awake.

Tyler: 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.

Narrator: On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Narrator: This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

Tyler: 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.

Tyler: Hey, you created me. I didn't create some loser alter - ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

Tyler: Three minutes. This is it... ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?

Narrator: [Voiceover] With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Tyler: Fight Club was the beginning, now it's moved out of the basement, it's called Project Mayhem.

Tyler: Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Tyler: [Whispering] Tell him the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception.

Marla: I've got a stomach full of Xanax. I took what was left of a bottle. It might have been too much.

Tyler: It's getting exciting now, 2 and 1/2. Think of everything we've accomplished, man. Out these windows, we will view the collapse of financial history... One step closer to economic equilibrium.

Narrator: I am Jack's raging bile duct.

Narrator: I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Narrator: After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.

Tyler: Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.

Narrator: 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!

Tyler Durden: [His last words] What's that smell?

Richard Chesler: Is that your blood?

Narrator: Some of it, yeah.

Tyler Durden: Where'd you go, psycho boy?

Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.

Tyler Durden: Like a monkey, ready to be shot into space. Space monkey! Ready to sacrifice himself for the greater good.

Tyler Durden: From now on, all those with shaved heads: 'Space Monkeys'.

Narrator: [About the soap] Tyler sold his soap to department stores at $20 a bar. Lord knows what they charged. It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.

Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just...

Marla Singer: - Instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?

Tyler Durden: Man, you've got some fucked up friends, I'm tellin' ya. Limber, though...

Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.

Narrator: Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?

Narrator: Strangers with this kind of honesty make me go a big rubbery one.