Quotes from work

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.”

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”

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

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”

“Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"

I say, goodnight.

The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.”

“I tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil”

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”

“This isn’t really death,’ Tyler says. ‘We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.’ I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.”

“Nothing is static.”

“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.”

“It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.”

“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

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

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.”

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What would Tyler Durden 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.”