49 Best Fight Club Quotes – #17 Don’t Miss

An enigmatic action cum psychological movie with great cinematography, its interpretation has eluded moviegoers for years. The opening scene which provides the background for the opening credits is visually arresting, with a hyper-realistic rendition of the electron microscopic view starting from the interior of the human brain with neurons and axons ….from the inside out. It culminates in an unnerving close-up view of the cold barrel of the gun. The fight scenes are brutal and the psychology is perplexing, not only for the Edward Norton character who suffers from a dissociative identity disorder but for the moviegoer as well….. where the delineation between fantasy and reality is blurred, shrouding the film in mystery. See our latest post on best quotes from dark knight rises movie.

Here are the selected best 49 quotes from the movie Fight Club

1. “I am profoundly vanilla.” —Tyler Durden
2. “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
3. “The things you own end up owning you.” —The Narrator
4. “Hitting bottom is not a weekend retreat. It’s not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go!” —Tyler Durden
5. “You met me at a very strange time in my life.” —The Narrator
6. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” —Tyler Durden
7. “I felt like destroying something beautiful.” —The Narrator
8. “I say never be complete. Stop being perfect. I say let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may.” —Tyler Durden
9. The 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?”
10. The Narrator: “What do you do?”
    Tyler Durden: “What do you mean?”
    The Narrator: “What do you do for a living?”
    Tyler Durden: “Why? So you can pretend like you’re interested?”
11. “With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy.” —The Narrator
12. “If you wake up in a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” —The Narrator
13. “Every evening I died and every evening I was born again, resurrected.” —The Narrator
14. “When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep and you’re never really awake.” —The Narrator
15. “I found freedom. Losing all hope is was freedom.” —The Narrator
16. “I’m all alone. My father dumped me. Tyler dumped me. I am Jack’s Broken Heart.” —The Narrator
17. “Marla’s philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t.” —The Narrator
18. “When the fight was over, nothing was solved, but nothing mattered. We all felt saved.” —The Narrator
19. “Most people, normal people, do just about anything to avoid a fight.” —The Narrator
20. “Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” —The Narrator
21. “After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.” —The Narrator
22. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered, what kind of dining set defines me as a person?” —The Narrator
23. “Fight Club wasn’t about winning or losing. It wasn’t about words. The hysterical shouting was in tongues, like at a Pentecostal Church —The Narrator
24. “If I didn’t say anything, people always assumed the worst.” —The Narrator
25. “It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.” —The Narrator
26. “Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.” —Tyler Durden
27. “Listen to me. You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen.” —Tyler Durden
28. “Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.” —Tyler Durden
29. “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy sh– we don’t need.” —Tyler Durden
30. “Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, we’re taking giant, panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, and docile. You accept your fate. It’s all right here. An emergency water landing, six hundred miles an hour. Blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.” —Tyler Durden
31. “Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” —Tyler Durden
32. “But first you have to give up. First, you have to know, not fear, know that someday you’re going to die.” —Tyler Durden
33. “We’re the middle children of history, man.” —Tyler Durden
34. “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.” —Tyler Durden
35. “Our great war’s a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.” —Tyler Durden
36. “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’ll be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” —Tyler Durden
37. “Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals. We haul your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you will you sleep. Do not f— with us.” —Tyler Durden
38. “Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day in Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have tasted.” —Tyler Durden
39. “If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?” —Tyler Durden
40. “Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” —Tyler Durden
41. “You were looking for a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own. All the ways you wished you could be, that’s me! I look like you want to look. I f— like you want to f—. I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I’m free in all the ways that you are not.” —Tyler Durden
42. “We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.” —Tyler Durden
43. “You shot yourself?” —Marla Singer
44. “A condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip one on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, and then you throw it away. The condom, I mean, not the stranger.” —Marla Singer
45. “Hey, you created me. I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!” —Tyler Durden
46. “This chick, Marla Singer, did not have testicular cancer. She was a liar. She had no diseases at all. I had seen her at Free and Clear, my blood parasites group Thursdays. Then at Hope, my bimonthly sickle cell circle. And again at Seize the Day, my tuberculosis Friday night. Marla, the big tourist. Her lie reflected my lie, and suddenly, I felt nothing.” —The Narrator
47. “With a gun barrel pressed between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.” —The Narrator
48. “Why would anyone want this sh– job?” —Tyler Durden
49. “You wanna make an omelette, you gotta break some eggs.” —Tyler Durden

Conclusion

It is a tale about the pointless and blind consumerism that fails to fill the empty void of people’s lives. The raw determinism to end it all. Although the violence in the film is too bloody gruesome and grossly ruthless. It serves as a thematic device to show desperation and as an outlet for the banality of existence. The Brad Pitt character’s occupation as a projectionist is deliberate since he is only a projection..a phantasm…of the Edward Norton character. The film is highly allegorical with plenty of subtexts and metaphors …. an enjoyable Easter egg hunt experience for an avid cinephile. Check out this post from GoodReads for more.