230 Movie Quotes about Life (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about life, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Cary Elwes as Westley Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride (1987)

2 Take it from an old spectator. Life's not a spectator sport. If watchin' is all you're gonna do, then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya.

Mary Wickes as Laverne the gargoyle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

3 But you must remember, Mowgli, greater love hath no one than he who lays down his life for his friend.

Bagheera in The Jungle Book (1967)

4 Old life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left, but all the time in the world to think about it.

Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd Red Redding in The Shawshank Redemption

5 Doggone it, I'm dog tired. I'm tired of leading a dog's life, and fighting like cats and dogs against cats and dogs, and young pups dogging my trail, trying to become top dog.

James Stewart as Wylie Burp in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

6 Did you ever wish that sometimes you could freeze-frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, This is not my life?

Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire

7 There doesn't seem to be any honest joy anymore. Your modern life seems to have got small. Everything's puckered up.

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

8 Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo?

Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

9 You can't choose between life or death when we're dealing with what's in between.

Zelda Rubinstein as Tangina Barrons in Poltergeist (1982)

10 I guess everybody's the same. You've got to be good at your job before you can enjoy the rest of your life.

Tom Cruise as Cole Trickle in Days of Thunder