Fight Club Quotes

"...the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die." This quote exemplifies the feeling, that at one point or another we have all felt, that we are out of control of our own life. We go through the motions, but we don't have any connection to what we are doing. It is as the narrator of Fight Club describes his insomnia, life is a "copy of a copy of a copy." There is no real "meaning" or "essence" to a life lived this way, to me at least, because this life is completely disconnected and without thought. However, to the characters of Fight Club, that's all life is and can be; disconnected. Life is defined by the fact that we die, that is what they honestly believe and feel they know. Therefore, this quote does not seem unbelievably depressing and bleak to them, but to me, living life simply going through the motions with no real connection to anything or anyone around me is the worst possible reality to consider.

"Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person." this quote exemplifies the journey that the narrator has taken throughout this novel. He started out kind of awkward, lost, and unsure but because of Tyler and his influence, the narrator has completely morphed. Everything he knows, he knows because Tyler knows it. Everything he says because Tyler says it. Tyler's "fantasy" world and the world of fight club have completely enveloped the life of the narrator and caused him to become someone and something that he is not, he is now a reincarnated version of Tyler. This quote from Fight Club I think foreshadows what will be the ultimate demise of the narrator. Him allowing total control of his life to Tyler will eventually come to a drastic head that I think will end in complete or extreme destruction to the narrator or to both of them. As trite as it sounds, allowing someone to so wholly influence your actions and beliefs can only end in disaster and the loss of oneself.