Chuck Palahniuk published his novel Fight Club in 1996.
It tells the story of an anonymous protagonist who suffers from sleeplessness and gets engaged with Tyler Durden, an intriguing young man who arranges secret boxing bouts.
Let’s go through some of the most famous quotes from Fight Club book for you.
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Fight Club Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“You have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
Until you know that, you are useless!” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. I am Jack’s Broken Heart.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“With insomnia, you’re never really awake; but you’re never really asleep.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“This isn’t about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“There are a lot of things we don’t want to know about the people we love.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“I don’t want to die without any scars.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (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.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
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Best Fight Club Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“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. 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 (Fight Club).
“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Which is worse: Hell or nothing?” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?” ~ 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).
Famous Fight Club Quotes
“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).
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” ~ 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).
“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).
“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.” ~ 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).
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
Quotes from Fight Club
“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“What would Tyler Durden do?” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.” ~ 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).
“The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“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 (Fight Club).
“I am Jack’s smirking revenge.” ~ 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).
“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash.” ~ 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).
“Maybe we should always assume the worst.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
Great Fight Club Quotes
“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Ok. You fuck 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 (Fight Club).
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.” ~ 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).
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” ~ 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).
Top Fight Club Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“The things you used to own, now they own you.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“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 (Fight Club).
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club.
“Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.” ~ 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).
“How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?” ~ 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).
“You always kill the one you love.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“I’m a toxic waste byproduct of God’s creation.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
“Being tired isn’t the same as being rich, but most times it’s close enough.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
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