25 Fight Clubs Quotes About Consumerism

I watched Fight Club again a few nights ago, and every time I watch it, I find myself relating to more and more of what’s said by the main characters regarding the current depths of consumerism.

Some of the wisdom gets overlooked because of the movie itself, so I’ve compiled a list of my favourite 25 quotes from Fight Club.

1. “We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.” — Tyler Durden

2. “Our great war’s a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.” — Tyler Durden

3. “You are not your job. You are not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You are not the contents of your wallet.” — Tyler Durden

4. “If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?” — Tyler Durden

5. “This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.” — The Narrator

6. “The things you own end up owning you.” — Tyler Durden

7. “If you wake up in a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” — The Narrator

8. “When the fight was over, nothing was solved, but nothing mattered. We all felt saved.” — The Narrator

9. “Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” — The Narrator

10. “Reject the basic assumptions of civilisation, especially the importance of material possessions.” — Tyler Durden

11. “But first you have to give up. First, you have to know, not fear, know that someday you’re going to die.” — Tyler Durden

12. “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’ll be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” — Tyler Durden

13. “Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” — Tyler Durden

14. “You were looking for a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own. All the ways you wished you could be, that’s me! I look like you want to look. I fk like you want to fk **. I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I’m free in all the ways that you are not.” — Tyler Durden

15. “Why would anyone want this sht job?” — Tyler Durden*

16. “You wanna make an omelette, you gotta break some eggs.” -Tyler Durden

17. “If you don’t know what you want,’ the doorman said, ‘you end up with a lot you don’t.” — Chuck Palahniuk

18. “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy sht we don’t need.” — Tyler Durden*

19. “Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.” — Tyler Durden

20. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered, what kind of dining set defines me as a person?” — The Narrator

21. “After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.” — The Narrator

22. “I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” — The Narrator

23. “We are not special. We are not crp or trash either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.” — Chuck Palahniuk*

24. “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.” — Tyler Durden

25. “Maybe, self-improvement isn’t the answer. Maybe, self-destruction is the answer.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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