Tyler Durden Quotes

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

You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

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.

I don’t want to die without any scars.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

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.

If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have.

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.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.