“fight club” (1999) sentence starters
Send me one to see how my muse reacts.
Trigger warnings: violence, murder, depression
“The first rule of ______ is: you do not talk about _____. The second rule of ____ is: you do not talk about _____.”
“Hit me before I lose my nerve.”
“Fuck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that’s your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me.”
“When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep… and you’re never really awake.”
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”
“You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.”
“If you don’t claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.”
“People are always asking me if I know [name].”
“Never been in a fight. You?”
“I don’t even have to come into the office, I can do this job from home.”
“We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”
“You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights. See the guys with testicular cancer. That’s pain.”
“My dad never went to college, so it was real important that I go.”
“I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”
“Hitting bottom isn’t a weekend retreat. It’s not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!”
“All right, if the applicant is young, tell him he’s too young. Old, too old. Fat, too fat. If the applicant then waits for three days without food, shelter, or encouragement he may then enter and begin his training.”
“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”
“Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.”
“I don’t wanna die without any scars.”
“For a second I totally forgot about [name]’s whole controlled demolition thing and I wondered how clean that gun is.”
“I know everything you do, so if you know I know.”
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
“I’ll bring us through this. As always. I’ll carry you - kicking and screaming - and in the end you’ll thank me.”
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
“The things you own end up owning you.”
“This is your life, and it’s ending. One minute at a time.”
“[Name], I’m grateful to you; for everything that you’ve done for me. But this is too much. I don’t want this.”
“More than one side? You’re Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!”
“Motherfucker! You hit me in the ear!”
“All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”
“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. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
“What would you wish you’d done before you died?”
“Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?”
“…We’re the same person.”
“I can’t believe he’s still standing.”
“He was a decent man, and we’re not gonna bury him in the fucking garden!”
“Three minutes. This is it - ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?”
“I know this because [name] knows this.”
“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.”
“Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction…”
“If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Okay, you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend near 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERINE!”
“It’s cheaper than a movie, and there’s free coffee.”
“Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?”
“Lord knows what they charged.”
“I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces.”
“Listen to me, I’m giving you a direct order. We’re aborting this mission right now.”
“With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.”
“You’re going to call off your rigorous investigation. You’re going to publicly state that there is no underground group.”
“Why would anyone want this shit job?”
“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. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
“These guys are going to take your balls. They’re going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times, press-release style.”
“[Name], what the fuck is going on here?”
“It’s called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.”
“I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”
“Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.”
“[Name] is dead. They shot him in the head!”
“When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just…”
“Why do people think I’m you?”
“Yeah, you’re sorry, I’m sorry, everybody’s sorry, but… I can’t do this anymore. I can’t. And I won’t. I’m gone.”
“Get the fuck out of here, you’re fired!”
“This isn’t a real suicide-thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.”
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
“I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.”
“Losing all hope is freedom.”
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.”
“I ask you for one thing, one simple thing.”
“Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God’s unwanted children? So be it!”
“If I didn’t say anything, people always assumed the worst.”
“People do it everyday, they talk to themselves… they see themselves as they’d like to be, they don’t have the courage you have, to just run with it.”
“I have a better solution. You keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant and in exchange for my salary, my job will be never to tell people these things that I know.”
“You’re the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”
“That’s, um… That’s an interesting theory.”
“Well, what do you want me to do? You just want me to hit you?”
“Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive.”
“I feel like destroying something beautiful.”
“This isn’t love, it’s sport fucking.”
“It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you’re sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.”
“I see all this potential, and I see squandering.”
“Why would anyone possibly confuse you with me?”
“[Name]’s philosophy of life is that she/he/they might die at any moment. The tragedy, she/he/they said, was that she/he/they didn’t.”
“How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?”
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