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Famous Fight Club’s Tyler Durden Quotes From The Book And Movie

Here’s a selection of Tyler Durden Quotes, covering topics such as snowflake, life, self improvement, soap, “you are not” and love insparation.

We really hope you enjoy these quotes and that they give you something to think about.

Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
Chuck Palahniuk

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, i’m wondering how clean this gun is.
Chuck Palahniuk

OK, you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend. Near 400 gallons of nitroglycerin!
Tyler Durden

A condom is the glass slipper for 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

First rule of fight club: Do not talk about fight club.
Second rule of fight club: DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!

I understand. In death a member of project mayhem has a name. His name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson. His name is…
Ricky

Most people…normal people…do just about anything to avoid a fight.
Narrator

When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep… and you’re never really awake.
Narrator

You wanna make an omlet, you gotta break some eggs.
Tyler Durden

f*ck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let… lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
Tyler Durden

Ok. You f*ck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.
Chuck Palahniuk

If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
Narrator

If you aren’t on your way to becoming a vet in six weeks, you will be dead.
Tyler Durden

Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Tyler Durden

This is your pain. This is your burning hand. It’s right here. Look at it.
Tyler Durden

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don’t need.
Chuck Palahniuk

This was the goal of project mayhem, tyler said, the complete and right-away destruction of civilization.
Chuck Palahniuk

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction…
Tyler Durden

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

You don’t know where I’ve been, Lou. (Laughing hysterically) You don’t know where I’ve been!
Tyler Durden

The first rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club
Tyler Durden

f*ck damnation, man! f*ck redemption! We are God’s unwanted children? So be it!
Tyler Durden

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Chuck Palahniuk

It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
Chuck Palahniuk

When you have a gun in your mouth, you can only speak in vowels.
Narrator

If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, “you end up with a lot you don’t.
Chuck Palahniuk

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.
Chuck Palahniuk

May I never be complete.
may I never be content.
may I never be perfect.
Chuck Palahniuk

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 one…our great depression…is our lives.
Tyler Durden

You are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world.
Chuck Palahniuk

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*cking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Tyler Durden

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk

Every evening I died, and every evening I was born again.
Narrator

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?.
Chuck Palahniuk

You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.
Narrator

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 f*cking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
Chuck Palahniuk

Stop controlling everything and just let go! (Narrator lets car go and crashes)
Tyler Durden

If you could be either god’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?.
Chuck Palahniuk

With a gun barrel pressed between you’re teeth, you speak only in vowels
Narrator

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let… lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
Tyler Durden

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you’re sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.
Tyler Durden

The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

The first rule of project mayhem is you do not ask questions.
Tyler Durden

It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.
Narrator

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.
Tyler Durden

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake; You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else; We are all part of the same compost heap; We are the all singing, all dancing, crap of the world
Tyler Durden

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Chuck Palahniuk

It could be worse. A woman could cut your penis off and throw it out the window of a moving car.
Tyler Durden

It’s only after you lost everything that you are free to do anything.
Tyler Durden

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
Chuck Palahniuk

Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.
Tyler Durden

f*ck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that’s your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me.
Tyler Durden

How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?
Tyler Durden

We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like
Tyler Durden

Now the passing etiquette. Do I give you the *ss or the crotch?
Tyler Durden

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
Chuck Palahniuk

Okay! You are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend, next to 40,000 POUNDS OF NITROGLYCERINE!
Tyler Durden

I got in everyone’s hostile little face. Yes, these are bruises from fighting. Yes, I’m comfortable with that. I am enlightened.
Narrator

You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Tyler Durden

You’re not your job, you’re not how much money you have in bank, you’re not the car you drive, you’re not the contents of your wallet, you’re not your f*cking khakis, you’re all-signing all-dancing crap of the world.
Tyler Durden

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
Tyler Durden

With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
Narrator

Marla you liar, you big tourist, I need this now get out!
Narrator

This is our first day at Fight Club, no shirts, no shoes, and what we do on our first day is…fight!
Tyler Durden

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

First rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club.
Second rule of Fight Club: You DO NOT talk about Fight Club!

We are consumers. We’re the by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
Tyler

I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species.
Narrator

Fight Club was the beginning, now it’s moved out of the basement, it’s called Project Mayhem.
Tyler Durden

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
Chuck Palahniuk

When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just…
Narrator

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Chuck Palahniuk

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
Chuck Palahniuk

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!.
Chuck Palahniuk

I haven’t been f*cked like that since gradeschool.
Marla Singer

Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion ?
Tyler Durden

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful i’d never have.
Chuck Palahniuk

I am jack’s complete lack of surprise. I am jack’s broken heart.
Chuck Palahniuk

Now, a question of etiquette – as I pass, do I give you the *ss or the crotch?
Tyler Durden

And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Narrator

When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be the corporations that name everything, the Microsoft Galaxy, the IBM stellar sphere, Planet Starbucks…
Narrator

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