The Narrator

From: Fight Club

379 quotes

"You realize that you're alone. And that's okay."
Solitude
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. So what are you going to do with it?"
"You've been asleep in the matrix long enough."
"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 fucking khakis."
"It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything."
Freedom
"The things you own end up owning you."
Power
"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you."
Faith
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."
Time
"When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep and you're never really awake."
Health
"Our generation has had no Great War, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
Motivation
"You're a slave to the history of your name."
History
"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer."
Change
"The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club."
"You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
Truth
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
Wisdom
"I felt like destroying something beautiful."
Art
"The narrator is a slave to the things he owns."
Work
"Everything is evolving, everything is falling apart."
Change
"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."
Money
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe it was because I had it all. A car, an antique cabinet, nice ikea furniture, the perfect life."
Happiness
"You're a statistic. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."
Dreams
"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."
Philosophy
"You have a class every single day for the rest of your life and you're not going to get to switch out."
Education
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
"The things you own end up owning you. You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need. But then you get into your life and you look around and you realize that everything sucks."
"Paper money is not real. It's not backed by anything."
Money
"Single-serving friends. That's what it is. A single-serving friend."
Friendship
"Imagine all the people who will never be as beautiful as you."
Beauty