Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club Quotes
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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.
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.
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.
HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.
Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.
Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.
If you don't know what you want, " the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.
Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.
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!
The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.
