# Tyler Durden Quotes from Fight Club

> “We are consumers. We're the by-products of a lifestyle obsession.”

> “The things you own end up owning you.”

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

> “I don't want to die without any scars.”

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

> “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.”

> “If you aren’t on your way to becoming a vet in six weeks, you will be dead.”

> “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”

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

> “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.”

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

> “Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”

> “We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.”

> “How much can you possibly know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?“

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

> “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.”