Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Funcher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, dissatisfied with his white-collar job. He forms a “fight club” with soap salesman Tyler Durden and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer. Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher’s intended marketing campaign to mitigate the anticipated losses. Fight Club failed to fulfill the studio’s expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. Fight Club was one of the most controversial and talked about films of the 1990s.The film was regarded as the harbinger of a new mood in American political life. Like other 1999 films Magnolia, Being John Malkovich and the Three Kings, Fight Club was recognized as an innovator in cinematic form and style as it brought new developments in filmmaking technology. Here is a collection of best fight club quotes and dialogues from Chuck Palahniuk, Robert, Tyler and Marla. These quotes aren’t just from movie but we’ve also collected them from the book.
Fight Club Quotes
- “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”― 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
- “Every evening I died, and every evening I was born again, resurrected.” ― The Narrator
- “I don’t want to die without any scars.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.” ― The Narrator
- “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.” ― Tyler
- “The things you used to own, now they own you.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.” ― The Narrator
- “At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, “you end up with a lot you don’t.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”― The Narrator
- “You met me at a very strange time in my life.” ―Narrator to Marla
- “It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The things you own end up owning you.”
― Tyler
- “May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. I am Jack’s Broken Heart.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “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, Fight Club
- “On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club “For years now, I’ve wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Maybe we should always assume the worst.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “I’m breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?” ― Tyler Durden
“I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing.” ― Tyler Durden
- “Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “If we are God’s unwanted children, so be it!” ― Tyler Durden
- “Marla’s philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn’t.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Skinny guys fight till they’re burger.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “You’re not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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- “Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They’re like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “I just don’t want to die without a few scars.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Hey, you created me! I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Being tired isn’t the same as being rich, but most times it’s close enough.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “First you’ve gotta know – not fear, know – that someday you’re gonna die.” ― Tyler Durden
- “There are a lot of things we don’t want to know about the people we love.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Best Dialogue from Fight Club Movie
Below are the best ever dialogues from the Fight Club movie.
- 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?
Narrator : Yeah Yeah. - Narrator: I know it seems like I have more than one side sometimes…
Marla Singer: More than one side? You’re Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass! - Narrator: I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.
Tyler Durden: Where’d you go psycho boy?
Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful. - Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don’t do one.
Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn’t believe.
Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
[Plane turns heavily, narrator thinks to himself]: Every time the plane banked sharply on takeoff or landing, I prayed for a crash, or mid air collision, anything. Life insurance pays triple when you die on a business trip.
