Fight Club Quotes…
Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.
It was cited as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999. The film later found commercial success with its home video release, establishing Fight Club as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. In 2009, on the tenth anniversary of the film’s release, The New York Times dubbed it the “defining cult movie of our time.”
Fight Club Quotes
“In Tyler We Trusted.”
“I am Jack’s smirking revenge.”
“What would Tyler Durden do?”
“I Am Jack’s Complete Lack Of Surprise.”
“Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.”
“I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can.”
“The Things You Own End Up Owning You.”
“I don’t want to die without any scars.”
“You Met Me At A Very Strange Time In My Life.”
“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
“The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.”
“This Is Your Life, And It’s Ending One Minute At A Time.”
“It’s Only After We’ve Lost Everything That We’re Free To Do Anything.”
“First, You’ve Gotta Know – Not Fear, Know – That Someday, You’re Gonna Die.”
“If You Aren’t On Your Way To Becoming A Vet In Six Weeks, You Will Be Dead.”
“When You Have Insomnia, You’re Never Really Asleep…And You’re Never Really Awake.”
“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”
“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”
“Advertising Has Us Chasing Cars And Clothes, Working Jobs We Hate So We Can Buy S**T We Don’t Need.”
“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.”
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
“You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.
“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. 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 the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by 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.”
