Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia.

Fight Club Book Quotes

1. “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

2. “If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

3. “For years now, I’ve wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”

4. “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.”

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

6. “It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

7. “At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

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

9. “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.”

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

11. “I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have.”

12. “Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”

13. “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.”

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

15. “On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

16. “I don’t want to die without any scars.”

17. “The things you used to own, now they own you.”

18. “Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

19. “If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”

20. “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.”

21. “If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”

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

23. “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”

24. “The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.”

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