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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

The first rule of fight club is — you don't talk about fight club.
The second rule of fight club is — you don't talk about fight club.
The third rule in fight club is — when someone says "stop" or goes
limp, the fight is over. The fourth rule is — only two guys to a fight.
Fifth rule — one fight at a time.
Sixth rule — no shirts or shoes.
Seventh rule — fights go on as long as they have to.
And the eighth rule of fight club is — if this is your first night, you *have* to fight.