2. “We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.” – Tyler Durden
3. “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don’t need.” – Tyler Durden
4. “You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.” – The Narrator
5. “Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight ’til they’re burgers.” – Tyler Durden
6. “When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything—the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.” – The Narrator
7. “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.” – Tyler Durden
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8. “When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you.” – The Narrator
9. “When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.” – The Narrator
10. “Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.” – Tyler Durden
11. “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” – The Narrator
12. “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. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” – Tyler Durden
13. “Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct.” – The Narrator
14. “My God. I haven’t been f*ck*d like that since grade school.” – Marla Singer
15. “Why would anyone want this sh*t job?” – Tyler Durden
16. “Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?” – The Narrator
17. “I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” – The Narrator
18. “It’s a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?” – Tyler Durden
19. “We are consumers. We’re the by-products of a lifestyle obsession.” – Tyler Durden
20. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Tyler Durden
21. “This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.” – The Narrator
22. “Bob is dead, they shot him in the head!” – The Narrator
23. “The things you own end up owning you.” – Tyler Durden
24. “Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived.” – Tyler Durden
25. “Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you’re taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It’s all right here.” – Tyler Durden
26. “How much can you know about yourself, you’ve never been in a fight?” – Tyler Durden
27. “Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.” – Robert Paulson
28. “The amazing miracle of death, when one second you’re walking and talking, and the next second you’re an object.” – The Narrator
29. “Stop trying to control everything and just let go! Let go!” – Tyler Durden
30. “Only after disaster can we be resurrected.” – Tyler Durden
31. “You don’t know where I’ve been, Lou. You don’t know where I’ve been!” – Tyler Durden
32. “I see all this potential, and I see it squandered.” – Tyler Durden
33. “God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars.” – Tyler Durden
34. “We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.” – Tyler Durden
35. “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
36. “I felt like destroying something beautiful.” – The Narrator
37. “You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your f*ck*ng khakis.” – Tyler Durden
38. “When you have a gun in your mouth, you can only speak in vowels.” – The Narrator
39. “Now, a question of etiquette—as I pass, do I give you the *ss or the crotch?” – Tyler Durden
40. “After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.” – The Narrator
41. “This isn’t a real suicide thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.” – Marla Singer
42. “If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” – The Narrator
43. “Now, ancient people found their clothes get cleaner if they washed them at a certain spot in the river.” – Tyler Durden
44. “Why? I don’t know why. I don’t know. Never been in a fight. You?” – Tyler Durden
45. “I don’t wanna die without any scars. So come on; hit me before I lose my nerve.” – Tyler Durden
46. “It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.” – The Narrator
47. “I am Jack’s raging bile duct.” – The Narrator
48. “You’re too old, fatty.” – Tyler Durden
49. “I am Jack’s smirking revenge.” – The Narrator
50. “I want you to hit me as hard as you can.” – Tyler Durden
51. “You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.” – Tyler Durden
52. “It could be worse. A woman could cut off your p*nis while you’re sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.” – Tyler Durden
53. “If I had a tumor, I’d name it Marla.” – The Narrator
54. “Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” – Tyler Durden
55. “F*ck Martha Stewart. Martha’s polishing the brass on the Titanic. It’s all going down, man. So f*ck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.” – Tyler Durden
56. “This is your pain. This is your burning hand. It’s right here. Look at it.” – Tyler Durden
57. “I’m going to my cave. I’m going to my cave and I’m going to find my power animal.” – The Narrator
58. “No! Don’t deal with this the way those dead people do. Deal with it the way a living person does.” – Tyler Durden
59. “With insomnia, nothing is real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.” – The Narrator
60. “You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you.” – Tyler Durden
61. “Marla’s philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t.” – The Narrator
62. “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 *ss*s back to them.” – The Narrator
63. “Human sacrifices were once made on the hills above this river. Bodies burnt, water speeded through the wood ashes to create lye.” – Tyler Durden
64. “You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.” – Tyler Durden
65. “And maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” – The Narrator
66. “What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.” – The Narrator
67. “If you’re male, and you’re Christian, and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?” – The Narrator
68. “What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God.” – The Narrator
69. “What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.” – The Narrator
70. “First you have to give up, first you have to know not fear—know that someday you’re gonna die.” – Tyler Durden
71. “The first rule of project mayhem is you do not ask questions.” – Tyler Durden
72. “Most people—normal people—do just about anything to avoid a fight.” – The Narrator
73. “You met me at a very strange time in my life.” – The Narrator
74. “F*ck damnation, man! F*ck redemption! We are God’s unwanted children? So be it!” – Tyler Durden
75. “I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect. I say lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.” – Tyler Durden
76. “You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.” – Tyler Durden
77. “I got in everyone’s hostile little face. Yes, these are bruises from fighting. Yes, I’m comfortable with that. I am enlightened.” – The Narrator