Tyler Durden – Character Quotes

Fuck damnation man, fuck redemption. We are God's unwanted children? So be it!

Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential. And I see it squandered. Goddamn it, an entire generation pumping gas. Waiting tables. Slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes. Working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We are the middle children of history, men. No purpose or place. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression... is our lives. We have all been raised on television to believe that one day we could all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. We are slowly learning that fact. And we are very, very pissed off.

I am keeping your license. Gonna check in on you. I know where you live. If you are not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead.

— Murder, crime, poverty. These things don't concern me. What concerns me, are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine. Viagra. Olestra.
— Martha Stewart.
— Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all going down, man. So fuck off with your... sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.

You created me. I didn't create some loser alter ego to make me feel better. Take some responsibility.

— I wanna know what you're thinking.
— Fuck what you know! Forget about what you think you know about life, friendship... And especially about you and me.

Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?

You wanted a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own. All the ways you wish you could be... That's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck. I am smart, capable and, most importantly... I'm free in all the ways that you are not.

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 someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.
Fourth rule. Only two guys to a fight.
Fifth rule. One fight at a time, fellas.
Sixth rule, no shirts, no shoes.
Seventh rule. Fights will go on as long as they have to.
And the eighth and final rule. If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.

I want you to hit me as hard as you can. <...> I don't want to die without any scars.

— Now promise me.
— Ok.
— You promise?
— Yeah, I promise.
— Promise.
— I just said, I promise! What...
— That's three times you promised.