Quotes About Tyler Durden

#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. These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

David Bowie

#3. When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

Napoleon Hill

#4. 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

#5. If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.

Michael Josephson

#6. What would Tyler Durden do?

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.

Rosemary Sutcliff

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. 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

#10. Culture is always on the move.

Colin Woodard

#11. Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Sherry Turkle

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Oh Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming?" asked Nick.
"No. I haven't any anesthetic," his father said. "But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they are not important."
-Indian Camp-

Ernest Hemingway,

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. You cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can't believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose a thought that allows you to feel relief.

Frederick Dodson

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.

Terry Goodkind

#19. You decide your own level of involvement.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk