Best Fight Club Quotes To Remember

“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club,” is one of the most well-known movie quotes of all time. Spoken by Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden in the 1999 cult classic Fight Club, it’s just one of many fantastic Fight Club quotes from the incredible movie about two men, Durden and The Narrator (Edward Norton), who start an underground fight club that ends up becoming a terrorist organization.

Based on the novel by author Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club is a wild ride through consumerism, capitalism, violence, and the pressures of life in modern society with star turns from Pitt and Norton. The Narrator is unsatisfied with his desk job and meets Durden, a soap seller when the two are sat next to each other on a plane.

After his house is destroyed by an explosion, the Narrator moves in with Durden and they end up starting Fight Club, leading to drastic changes in the way the Narattor lives his life. All this culminates in a shocking ending where it is revealed the Narrator is actually Durden. Who saw that coming?

Fight Club is one of David Fincher’s best movies and a fantastic look at society and the role consumerism plays. Not only are Pitt and Norton in fine form, but the ensemble cast is spectacular, with Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer, Meat Loaf as Robert Paulson, Jared Leto as Angel Face, a young member of Project Mayhem, and Holt McCallany as the Mechanic, all making their presence felt.

Part drama, part comedy, Fight Club has many memorable lines and quotes you’ve no doubt been quoting with your mates for years. But if you’re a little rusty, we’ve gathered together some of our favorites. Each movie quote we have selected below is a testament to the incredible writing of both author Palahniuk and screenwriter Jim Uhls, who helped bring the book alive on the big screen.

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1. “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
2. “This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.” – the Narrator
3. “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
4. “You met me at a very strange time in my life.” – the Narrator
5. “Now, a question of etiquette – as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch?” – Tyler Durden
6. “I felt like destroying something beautiful.” – the Narrator
7. “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
8. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered, what kind of dining set defines me as a person?” – the Narrator
9. “You definitely said you would say that.” – police officers.
10. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Tyler Durden
11. “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” – the Narrator
12. “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
13. “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
14. “It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.” – the Narrator
15. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we are free to do anything.” – Tyler Durden
16. 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?”
17. “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. Goddamn 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 s*** 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 is 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. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” – Tyler Durden
18. “I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” – the Narrator
19. “Bury him. Take him to the garden and bury him.” – Angel Face
20. “If I didn’t say anything people always assumed the worst.” – the Narrator
21. “I say never be complete. Stop being perfect. I say let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may.” – Tyler Durden
22. “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.” – Marla Singer
23. “I am profoundly vanilla.” – Tyler Durden
24. “The things you own end up owning you.” – the Narrator
25. “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
26. “We are a by-product of a lifestyle obsession.” – Tyler Durden
27. 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?”
28. “I say never be complete. Stop being perfect. I say let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may.” – Tyler Durden
29. “Marla’s philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t.” – the Narrator
30. “You hit me in the ear!” – Tyler Durden
31. “This isn’t a real suicide thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.” – Marla Singer
32. “Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” – Tyler Durden
33. “With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy.” – the Narrator
34. “Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.” – Tyler Durden
35. “You wake up at SeaTac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.” – the Narrator
36. “If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?” – Tyler Durden
37. “Sir, the first rule of Project Mayhem is: You do not ask qu…” – Angel Face
38. “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 fuck like you want to fuck. I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I’m free in all the ways that you are not.” – Tyler Durden
39. “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
40. “If you aren’t on your way to becoming a vet in six weeks, you will be dead.” – Tyler Durden
41. “If you wake up in a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” – the Narrator
42. “I want you to hit me as hard as you can.” – Tyler Durden
43. “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
44. “First, you’ve gotta know – not fear, know – that someday, you’re gonna die.” – Tyler Durden
45. “When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep…and you’re never really awake.” – the Narrator
46. “Hey, you created me. I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!” – Tyler Durden
47. “Tyler built himself an army. Why was Tyler Durden building an army? To what purpose? For what greater good? In Tyler we trusted.” – the Narrator
48. “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
49. “You’re the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.” – Marla Singer
50. “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 fuck with us.” – Tyler Durden
51. “Strangers with this kind of honesty make me go a big blubbery one.” – the Narrator
52. “Why would anyone want this shit job?” – Tyler Durden
53. “With a gun barrel pressed between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.” – the Narrator
54. “You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.” – Tyler Durden
55. “After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.” – the Narrator
56. “Man, you’ve got some fucked up friends, I’m tellin’ ya. Limber, though…” – Tyler Durden
57. “Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I’ve ever met.” – the Narrator
58. “We are consumers. We’re the by-products of a lifestyle obsession.” – Tyler Durden
59. “Every evening I died and every evening I was born again, resurrected.” – the Narrator
60. “Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.” – Tyler Durden
61. “I’m all alone. My father dumped me. Tyler dumped me. I am Jack’s Broken Heart.” – the Narrator
62. “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
63. “When the fight was over, nothing was solved, but nothing mattered. We all felt saved.” – the Narrator
64. “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
65. “Most people, normal people, do just about anything to avoid a fight.” – the Narrator
66. “But first you have to give up. First, you have to know, not fear, know that someday you’re going to die.” – Tyler Durden