The Narrator is a fictional character appearing as the central figure of the 1996 Chuck Palahniuk novel Fight Club, its 1999 film adaptation of the same name, and the comic book Fight Club 2. Profoundly inspirational Tyler Durden quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Tyler Durden Quotes
If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. – Tyler Durden
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time. – Tyler Durden
The things you own, they end up owning you. – Tyler Durden
F*ck off with your sofa units and green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let…let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may. – Tyler Durden
If we are God’s unwanted children, so be it! – Tyler Durden
Is it a problem for you to ask? – Tyler Durden
We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need. – Tyler Durden
You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your ****ing khakis. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. – Tyler Durden
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. – Tyler Durden
It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. – Tyler Durden
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. – Tyler Durden
Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. 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. – Tyler Durden
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don’t need. – Tyler Durden
We’re consumers. We are the byproducts 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. Rogaine, V**gra, Olestra. – Tyler Durden
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. God damn 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 sh*t we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. 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’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. – Tyler Durden
Oh, heavens, no. Not the green one, anything but the green one. [After the green wire is cut] I asked you not to do that! – Tyler Durden
I look like you wanna look, I f*ck like you wanna f*ck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I’m free in all the ways that you are not. – Tyler Durden
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. – Tyler Durden
[To the Chief of Police] Hi. You’re going to call off your rigorous investigation. You’re going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or these guys are going to take your balls. We’re going to send one to the New York Times, one to the L.A. Times press-release-style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep. Do not with us. – Tyler Durden
First you have to give up, first you have to know – not fear – know that someday you’re gonna die. – Tyler Durden
Man, you’ve got some ****ed up friends! Limber, though. – Tyler Durden
Hi, you’re gonna call off your rigorous investigation. You’re gonna publicly state that there is no underground group, or, these guys are gonna take your balls. They’re gonna send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times, press release style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on: we cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep. Do not f*ck with us. – Tyler Durden
First you’ve gotta know—not fear, know—that someday you’re gonna die. – Tyler Durden
Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think every thing you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. 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. You have been warned—Tyler. – Tyler Durden
[The Narrator’s tooth falls out] Even the Mona Lisa’s falling apart. – Tyler Durden
I don’t want to die without any scars. – Tyler Durden
[Last words] What’s that smell? – Tyler Durden
Hitting bottom isn’t a weekend retreat. It’s not a g*dd*mn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO! – Tyler Durden
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. – Tyler Durden
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. – Tyler Durden
Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. – Tyler Durden
Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers failed, what does that tell you about God? – Tyler Durden
Three minutes. This is it, ground zero. Would you like to say anything to mark the occasion? – Tyler Durden
Stop trying to control everything and just let go. – Tyler Durden
The first soap was made from the ashes of heroes, like the first monkey shot into space. Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. – Tyler Durden
You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. – Tyler Durden
Reject the basic assumption of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions! – Tyler Durden
Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. – Tyler Durden
I want you to hit me as hard as you can. – Tyler Durden
[From theatrical PSA] Did you know that urine is sterile? You can drink it. – Tyler Durden
Just ask, man. – Tyler Durden
This is your pain. This is your burning hand. It’s right here. Look at it. – Tyler Durden
Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction … – Tyler Durden
You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. We don’t need Him. damnation, man, redemption! If we are God’s unwanted children, so be it! – Tyler Durden
Martha Stewart! Martha’s polishing the brass on the Titanic; it’s all going down, man. So off with your sofa units and your Strinne green stripe patterns. I say, never be complete. I say, stop being perfect. I say, let’s evolve, and let the chips fall where they may. – Tyler Durden
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. – Tyler Durden
Now, why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is? Is it essential to our survival in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we, then? – Tyler Durden
Ok. You are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend near 400 gallons of nitroglycerin! – Tyler Durden
It could be worse. A woman could cut off your p*n*s while you’re sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car. – Tyler Durden
Ah. Flashback humor. – Tyler Durden
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have. – Tyler Durden
Now, a question of etiquette—as I pass, do I give you the *ss or the crotch? – Tyler Durden
In the world I see … you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway. – Tyler Durden
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. – Tyler Durden
How much can you know about yourself, you’ve never been in a fight? I don’t wanna die without any scars. So come on; hit me before I lose my nerve. – Tyler Durden
