There’s no first rule or second rule here, just a fun time reminiscing on the most memorable lines from this popular flick. From Tyler Durden to the Narrator to Marla Singer and more, keep reading for the best Fight Club quotes by character and of all time.
Best Fight Club Quotes
- “This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.” —The Narrator
- “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
- “The things you own end up owning you.” —The Narrator
- “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
- “You met me at a very strange time in my life.” —The Narrator
- “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” —Tyler Durden
- “I felt like destroying something beautiful.” —The Narrator
- “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?”
The Narrator Quotes
- “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
- “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
- “I found freedom. Losing all hope is was freedom.” —The Narrator
- “I’m all alone. My father dumped me. Tyler dumped me. I am Jack’s Broken Heart.” —The Narrator
- “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
- “Most people, normal people, do just about anything to avoid a fight.” —The Narrator
- “Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” —The Narrator
- “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
- “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
Tyler Durden Quotes
- “Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.” —Tyler Durden
- “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
- “Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, we’re taking giant, panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It’s all right here. Emergency water landing, six hundred miles an hour. Blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.” —Tyler Durden
- “Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” —Tyler Durden
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
Marla Singer Quotes
- “You shot yourself?” —Marla Singer
- “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
- “This isn’t a real suicide thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.” —Marla Singer 46. “There are things about you that I like. You’re smart. You’re funny. You’re spectacular in bed. But you’re intolerable! You have serious emotional problems. Deep-seated problems for which you should seek professional help.” —Marla Singer
- “It’s a bridesmaid’s dress. I got it at a second-hand store. It was loved intensely for one night, then cast aside.” —Marla Singer
- “I haven’t been f—ed like that since grade school.” —Marla Singer
- “You’re the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.” —Marla Singer
Angel Face Quotes
- “It’s under control, sir.” —Angel Face
- “Sir, the first rule of Project Mayhem is: You do not ask qu—” —Angel Face
- “Bury him. Take him to the garden and bury him.” —Angel Face
Funny Fight Club Quotes
- “Strangers with this kind of honesty make me go a big blubbery one.” —The Narrator
- “Hey, you created me. I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!” —Tyler Durden
- “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 56. “With a gun barrel pressed between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.” —The Narrator
- “Why would anyone want this sh– job?” —Tyler Durden
- “You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.” —Tyler Durden
- “Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I’ve ever met.” —The Narrator
- “I am profoundly vanilla.” —Tyler Durden
- “Now, a question of etiquette: As I pass, do I give you the a– or the crotch?” —Tyler Durden
Inspiring Fight Club Quotes from Author Chuck Palahniuk
- “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “Maybe, self-improvement isn’t the answer. Maybe, self-destruction is the answer.” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “The girl is infectious human waste, and she’s confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won’t commit to anything.” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “We are not special. We are not crap or trash either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “‘If you don’t know what you want,’ the doorman said, ‘you end up with a lot you don’t.’” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “Okay. You f— me, then snub me. You love me. You hate me. You show me a sensitive side. Then you turn into a total a–hole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship?” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.” —Chuck Palahniuk 70. “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.” —Chuck Palahniuk Next up, 100 of the best movie quotes from famous films.
