Fight Club quotes

View Quote Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction ...

View Quote [The Narrator's tooth falls out] Even the Mona Lisa's falling apart.

View Quote Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

View Quote Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers failed, what does that tell you about God?

View Quote 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. We don't need Him. **** damnation, man, **** redemption! If we are God's unwanted children, so be it!

View Quote First you have to give up, first you have to know – not fear – know that someday you're gonna die.

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

View Quote Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. 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, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war's 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.

View Quote In the world I see ... you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

View Quote [To the Chief of Police] Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or these guys are going to take your balls. We're going to send one to the New York Times, one to the L.A. Times press-release-style. 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 while you sleep. Do not **** with us.

View Quote You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

View Quote The first soap was made from the ashes of heroes, like the first monkey shot into space. Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.

View Quote Stop trying to control everything and just let go.

View Quote I look like you want to look, I **** like you want to ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in every way that you are not.

View Quote Oh, heavens, no. Not the green one, anything but the green one. [After the green wire is cut] I asked you not to do that!