Quotes from work

Fight Club

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

“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.”

“The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.”

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”

“Maybe we should always assume the worst.”

“There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.”

“Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.”

“I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.”

“Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.”

“Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.”

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

“Self improvement is masturbation…”

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

“I want to have your abortion.”

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”

“For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.”

“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.”

“You always kill the one you love.”