Fight Club – Movie Quotes

An exit-door procedure at 30.000 feet. Mm-hmm. The illusion of safety.

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

The things you own end up owning you.

We've had a near-life experience!

— You know why they put oxygen masks on planes?
— So you can breathe.
— Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you take giant panic breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing, 600mph. Blank faces. Calm as hindu cows.
— That's um... That's an interesting theory.

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

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.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

The things you own end up owning you.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

[Holding up a wad of cash]
You're not getting this back. I consider it asshole tax.

You met me at a very strange time in my life.

What are we, then? We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. 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.

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

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Narrator: Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I've ever met. ... See, I have this thing: everything on a plane is single-serving...
Tyler Durden: Oh, I get it. It's very clever.
Narrator: Thank you.
Tyler Durden: How's that working out for you?
Narrator: What?
Tyler Durden: Being clever.
Narrator: ... Great.