Durden Quotes

#1. Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape.

Toni Sorenson

#3. If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone.

Benji Durden

#4. Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

Benji Durden

#5. The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. What would Tyler Durden do?

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

Robert Anthony

#8. If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

Benji Durden

#10. I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Seismic change can happen over a lifetime, or in an instant.

Romeo Dallaire

#12. It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.

Benji Durden

#13. I don't want to die without any scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. You stopped in last week Mr. Durden, " he says. "Don't you remember?

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep.

Chelsea Leyland

#19. The things you own, end up owning you.
Tyler Durden

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Shawn Johnson

#22. You decide your own level of involvement.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don't like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

Kerem Mermutlu

#24. After all, humans have only been flying since 1783, and that isn't time for tens of thousands of years of evolution to have caught up ... we have to think about each flight we make because it isn't yet a natural part of us.

Rick Durden

#25. For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.

Lionel Barber

#26. Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Chuck Palahniuk