Fight Club Novel Quotes:

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

topic: One Minute, Fight Club Novel

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

topic: Depression, Spiritual, War, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

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

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.108, Random House

topic: Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Life, Literature, Want, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Self, Answers, Improvement, Self Destruction, Fight Club Novel

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

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.110, Random House

topic: Liberators, Fight Club Novel

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

- Robert Browning

topic: Motivational, Struggle, Fighting, Self Restraint, Fight Club Novel

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Doe, Clubs, Like You, Fight Club Novel

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

topic: Night, Glasses, Our Generation, Fight Club Novel, Glass Slippers

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Jesus, Fight Club Novel

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Death, Wisdom, Zero, Dying Death, Fight Club Book

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Mona Lisa, Fight Club Novel, Louvre

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Unique, Special You, Maggots

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Couple, Issues, Years, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fall, Hey, Destruction, Mona Lisa, Fight Club Novel

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

topic: Speed Limits, Deathbed, Fight Club Novel

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Disaster, Destruction, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didnt I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Death, Pain, Wall, Specialness, Walnuts

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Unique, Special, Sacred, Specialness, Walnuts

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

topic: Fight Club Novel

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Spirit, Destroying, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fighting, Night, Clubs, Fight Club Novel, Night Club

I know this because Tyler knows this.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fight Club Novel

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Messy Hair, Fight Club Novel

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

topic: Jobs, Gun, Mouths, Waiter, Fight Club Book

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fall, Reality, Literature, Want You Back, Fight Club Novel

This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Messy Hair, Support Groups, Fight Club Novel, Building Something

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.22, Random House

topic: Losing, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moments, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Home, Breathing, Funeral, Fight Club Novel

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House

topic: Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Inspiring, Perfect, May, Swedish, Fight Club Book

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Glowing, Going With The Flow, Want, Speaking In Public, Knowing What You Want

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Special, Trash, Crap, Specialness, Walnuts

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

topic: Fight Club Novel

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fighting, Men, Generations, Fight Club Novel

Welcome to Fight Club. 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! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fighting, Shoes, Two, 80s And 90s, Something Beautiful

Welcome to Fight Club. 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!

- Brad Pitt

topic: Movie, Fighting, Clubs, Fight Club Novel

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.33, Random House

topic: Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Different, Wake Up, Literature, Different Place, Fight Club Novel

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. 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

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Queens, Bees, Drones, Worker Bees, Fight Club Book

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.83, Random House

topic: Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel, Getting Fired, Treading Water

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.53, Random House

topic: Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Father, Writing, Fighting, Fight Club Novel